Moray HER - NJ56SW0021 - CASTLE OF SKEITH

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Primary ReferenceNJ56SW0021
NameCASTLE OF SKEITH
NRHE Card No.NJ56SW5
NRHE Numlink 17994
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. NULL
Site Form Documentary Record Only
Site Condition Destroyed
Details Site of castle. The OS Name Book recorded the site of the castle on the west side of the present farm steading, noting that a small vestige of the ruin formed part of the north end garden wall. OS site visit in 1961 found no certain trace of the castle found. A stretch of circa 8 m of the west and north wall of the existing garden is of mortared rubble masonry circa 2 m high but featureless and it is not possible to say if it was part of the castle or courtyard. A low bank or dark trace of a ditch is visible on a vertical aerial photograph taken in 1976 surrounding the site of the castle. The earliest cartographic reference to the castle appears to be a tower house named Skyith on Pont's map of 1580-90, although this predates a date stone of 1687 incorporated into the present farmhouse (NJ56SW0075). The castle was ruinous by the 1790s (Statistical Account of 1791-9).
Last Update07/09/2022
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CASTLES SITE OFA95
CROPMARKS AP VISIBLEB100