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Eccles House
Moated Site (Medieval)
Site Name Eccles House
Classification Moated Site (Medieval)
Canmore ID 65164
Site Number NX89NE 3
NGR NX 8565 9533
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/65164
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Penpont
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NX89NE 3 9565 9533.
(NX 8565 9533) Castle (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1957)
Excavations carried out here some years ago by Mr Maitland revealed stone foundations, "of an old castle" (Mr Maitland, Eccles)
Name Book 1856
The ditch and parapet mound of a four-sided enclosure, levelled and considerably ploughed down.
RCAHMS 1920
There are the remains of a bank outside the ditch.
Recorded by O G S Crawford 1938
Homestead moat.
R W Feachem 1956
An almost square homestead moat enclosing a levelled, featureless area 37.0m E-W with E and W sides measuring 36.0m and 41.0m in length respectively. The broad, flat-bottomed ditch is 11.5m across and up to 1.9m deep. The remains of an outer bank exist on the E, W and N, the S side being considerably ploughed down. This bank varies in height from 1.0m at the W angle to 0.4m. The causeway in the N angle is apparently formed by field clearance but the possibility that an original feature existed here cannot be discounted since nowhere is there any sign of an entrance.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (SFS) 5 August 1975
This site is listed in an Atlas of Scottish History (McNeill and MacQueen 1996) as a moated site.
Information from RCAHMS (DE) September 1997
Field Visit (1996 - 2003)
Russell Coleman managed an Historic Scotland funded project to record medieval moated sites in Scotland. Gazetteers were produced for each regional council area between 1996 and 2002 with an uncompleted overall review in 2002-03. The results of the first year of the project were published in Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, Volume 3 (1997).
