Dunfermline, Perdieus Mount
Motte (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Dunfermline, Perdieus Mount
Classification Motte (Medieval)(Possible)
Canmore ID 49352
Site Number NT08NE 30
NGR NT 0906 8669
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49352
- Council Fife
- Parish Dunfermline
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NT08NE 30 0906 8669.
(NT 0906 8669) Perdieus Mount (NR)
OS 6" map, (1946)
Perdieus Mount: In a low-lying field is a large earthen mound c. 15' high. It is now in a neglected state and much overgrown. The mound is perhaps a motte hill.
RCAHMS 1933.
This earthen mound has been too mutilated to positively classify as a motte.
Visited by OS (D W R) 18 February 1974.
Field Visit (20 August 1925)
Perdieus (O.S. Perdiens) Mount.
A little to the south of the town, in a low-lying field near to Lady Mill Toll and close to the west bank of the Lyne Burn, is a large earthen mound, which stands at an elevation of 150 feet above sea-level and is approximately 15 feet high. It is now in a neglected state, and, owing to the rank growth and the accumulation of rubbish, accurate measurements are impossible. The lands of "Perdew" (1526) or "Perdewis" (1557-85) or " Perdeweis" (1610) alias Broomhill ("Brumhill") were described as lying on the south side of lower Dunfermline (ex australi parte inferioris ville ejusdem), on both sides of the "lyn" or Lyne Burn, and at the dates cited was feued by perhaps a family of the name of Murray (1). "Perdiens" on the O.S. map is a misprint for "Perdieus," (2) and the mound is perhaps a mote-hill. Originally "Pardusin" was Abbey land (3).
RCAHMS 1933, visited 20 August 1925.
(1) See p. 121(2), Registrum de Dunfermelyn, pp. 381, 492, 504. (2) "Pardieus" in Stat. Acct., xiii, p. 453 (note). (3) Registrum, No. 1.
