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Easter Clune, Castle Of Easter Clune

Tower House (Medieval)

Site Name Easter Clune, Castle Of Easter Clune

Classification Tower House (Medieval)

Canmore ID 36212

Site Number NO69SW 1.01

NGR NO 6123 9150

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Birse
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Kincardine And Deeside
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NO69SW 1.01 6123 9150

(NO 6123 9150) Castle (NR)

OS 6" map, (1959)

An angle fragment less than one storey high is all that remains of the Castle of Easter Clune, a small 16th to 17th century tower. It is said to have been built by an Archbishop Ross. Easter Clune house (NO 6117 9147) bears the date 1719 so presumably the tower was abandoned by then.

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92.

Castle of Easter Clune, as described by MacGibbon and Ross. Only 2.0m of the ivy-covered E and S walls survive, 1.2m thick and 4.5m high, forming the SE corner.

Revised at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (R L) 20 April 1972.

No change to previous field report.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (J B) 28 April 1978.

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