Chapel Cottage
Moated Site (Medieval)
Site Name Chapel Cottage
Classification Moated Site (Medieval)
Canmore ID 34752
Site Number NO55NE 10
NGR NO 57737 57214
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/34752
- Council Angus
- Parish Brechin
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO55NE 10 577 572.
(NO 5773 5721) Moat (NR)
OS 6" map, Forfarshire and Angus, 2nd ed., (1927)
A moated enclosure adjoining Chapel cottage; the S side and angles, although defaced, of the rectangle can easily be traced. Hundreds of cartloads of stones have been removed from it. Jervise (1861), noting the Archdeacon's Barns as a curiously moated place with ditches and walls on West Drums farm, has apparently confused this site with that described on NO55NE 12.
Name Book 1861; A Jervise 1861.
Christison (1900) notes that the "moat" referred to on the OS map must have disappeared as he could see nothing "but a cottage and garden beside a square enclosure, fenced by a low mound, on the top of which was a ruined wall".
D Christison 1900.
A bank 1.5m high and topped by the overgrown remains of a stone wall is all that exists on the N and part of the E sides of this site. This bank is almost certainly modern. No trace of a ditch now exists in the surrounding cultivated field.
Visited by OS (JLD) 8 July 1958.
Field Visit (5 September 1956)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Marginal Land Survey (1950-1962), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, are available to view online - see the searchable PDF in 'Digital Items'. These vary from short notes, to lengthy and full descriptions. Contemporary plane-table surveys and inked drawings, where available, can be viewed online in most cases - see 'Digital Images'. The original typecripts, notebooks and drawings can also be viewed in the RCAHMS search room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 19 July 2013.
Note (1984)
Chapel Cottage NO 577 572 NO55NE 10
There are no visible remains of a rectangular moated enclosure which lay immediately N of Chapel cottage.
RCAHMS 1984
(Name Book, Forfar, No. 11, p. 102; Christison 1900, 50).
