Balcastle Motte
Motte (12th Century) - (13th Century)
Site Name Balcastle Motte
Classification Motte (12th Century) - (13th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ba' Castle; Balcastle Farm
Canmore ID 45883
Site Number NS77NW 18
NGR NS 70113 78178
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish Kilsyth (North Lanarkshire)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cumbernauld And Kilsyth
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS77NW 18 7011 7818.
(NS 7011 7818) Motte (NR)
OS 1:10000 map (1978)
Motte, Balcastle: This motte was fashioned from a natural knoll and varies in height from 3.6 to 12.2m, its roughly oval summit measuring 36.5 by 25.9m. It is flanked on three sides by streams and on the N by slight traces of a ditch about 5.5m broad. A track ascending the NE flank of the motte is unlikely to be original, and was no doubt made comparatively recently, when the top of the motte was periodically cultivated.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 1953;
A motte, as described.
Visited by OS (JLD) 17 February 1954 and (JP) 16 January 1974
Field Visit (May 1977)
Balcastle NS 701 781 NS77NW 18
This motte was fashioned from a natural knoll and varies in height from 3.6m to 12.2m, its roughly oval summit measuring 36.5m by 25.9m. It is flanked on three sides by streams and on the N by slight traces of a ditch about 5.5m broad.
RCAHMS 1982, visited May 1977
(Gordon 1726, 21 and pl. ii, 2; RCAHMS 1963, pp. 173-4, No. 182)