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Barmagachan
Motte (Medieval)
Site Name Barmagachan
Classification Motte (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Barmagachan Mote
Canmore ID 63930
Site Number NX64NW 1
NGR NX 6136 4941
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63930
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Borgue
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX64NW 1 6136 4941.
(NX 6136 4941) Barmagachan Mote (NR).
OS 6" map (1957)
This motte is conical in shape, 20' high, with a summit measuring 60' by 54'. A low circular bank about 5' wide passes around the summit, with a slight hollow some 3'6" wide on its inner side, containing a circular area 37' in diameter. The roadway has destroyed any defences that may have existed to the NE, but at the base of the motte to the SW, there is a short segment of a ditch, 18' wide and 5' deep below the crest of the counterscarp.
RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911; R W Feachem 1956; F R Coles 1893
Motte generally as described above. In addition to the ditch on the south-west, a short stretch can still be traced on the east, through which a small stream flows. The name is not in local use.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 3 February 1971.
