Aberdeenshire HER - NJ83NW0003 - GIGHT CASTLE

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Feature: NJ83NW0003 - GIGHT CASTLE
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Remains of castle, possibly built on the site of an earlier castle as there are a number of re-used stones. Gight is one of a group of four Aberdeenshire castles which were almost certainly built by the same master-mason of the 16th Century. The castle is a rubble-built L-plan tower-house, with ribbed groin-vaulted vestibule with carved corbels and complex wall chambers. Nothing survives above first floor level. The associated L-plan outbuildings are of a later date and are fairly complete although roofless. The south part were stables. There is a segmentally arched coachhouse in the north gable of the northeast wing and an outside stair in southeast angle. After a very dry summer (1995) rectangular cropmarks were observed immediately to the east of the castle. Also a number of other cropmarks, probably associated with the castle, lie to the east.
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200 ft
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