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Adam's Castle

Castle (Medieval)

Site Name Adam's Castle

Classification Castle (Medieval)

Canmore ID 36780

Site Number NO87NE 5

NGR NO 8637 7572

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NO87NE 5 8637 7572.

(NO 8637 7572) Adam's Castle (NR) (site of)

OS 1:10000 map (1974)

Listed.

Scottish Castle Survey 1988; N Bogdan and I B D Bryce 1991.

Activities

Field Visit (March 1982)

Adam's Castle NO 863 757 NO87NE 5

Nothing is visible of the 'stronghold' noted on a coastal promontory 500m S of Hallhill farmhouse; it was 'very much like' Castle of Cadden (NO87SE 3) 'but much larger'.

RCAHMS 1982, visited March 1982

(Stat. Acct., vi, 1793, 208; Name Book, Kincardine, No. 13, p. 46)

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