Kirkcarswell
Motte (Medieval)
Site Name Kirkcarswell
Classification Motte (Medieval)
Canmore ID 64398
Site Number NX74NE 3
NGR NX 7543 4873
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Rerrick
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX74NE 3 7543 4873.
(NX 7543 4873) Mote (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
A motte situated on the SE side of a small stream flowing in the Abbey Burn. Standing 12' high it has been constructed on a square plan, the summit measuring 45' along two sides, and 47' and 42' on the others, being somewhat broken down on the SSW angle. It is surrounded by a ditch best preserved on the E side measuring c 26' wide across the top and 5' - 6' deep, which opens onto the stream on either side. On the N half of the summit is a semi-elliptical depression coming almost to the edge of the scarp and measuring some 25' wide with a chord of the same length.
Coles states that this was the site of the old mansion-house of the Broughtons of Cally, inhabited when Dundrennan Abbey flourished.
RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911; F R Coles 1891
A Motte as described above.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 28 January 1971
