Alternative Names Mains Of Dumbreck; Drumbreck Castle
Site type CASTLE
Canmore ID 19608
Site Number NJ82NE 18
NGR NJ 8982 2888
Council ABERDEENSHIRE
Parish UDNY
Former Region GRAMPIAN
Former District GORDON
Former County ABERDEENSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NJ82NE 18 8982 2888

For Mains of Dumbreck Farmsteading see NJ82NE 57.

(NJ 8982 2888) Dumbreck Castle (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map, (1959).

We may recognise the work of Thomas Leper, architect of Tolquhon (NJ82NE 1) in the vanished castle of Dumbreck: for among the curved fragments used in building Mains of Dumbreck (NJ 89 28) there is the left hand orifice of a triplet gunloop of the characteristic Tolquhon pattern.
W D Simpson 1948.

The site is now under cultivation and no trace of the castle survives. The gunloop is built into the E N E facing gable of Mains of Dumbreck farm-house. Another carved fragment is built into the N facing wall of a farm outbuilding at NJ 8971 2877.
Visited by OS (RL) 6 April 1971.

Nothing is visible of the castle that stood about 120m NE of Mains of Dumbreck farmsteading (NJ82NE 57) and its site is now under cultivation. There are several architectural fragments built into the steading.
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW, JRS), 28 January 1997.

Bogdan and Bryce, N and I B D (1991) 'Castles, manors and 'town houses' survey', Discovery Excav Scot
Page(s): 31

Scottish Castle Survey (1988) 'A directory of the owners and occupiers of the castles, manors and 'town houses' {c.1050-c.1707} of Scotland: Grampian Region', Aberdeen
Page(s): 38, no.83/2 Held at RCAHMS B.2.1.CAS

Simpson, W D (1948a) 'The Tolquhon Aisle, and other monuments in Tarves Kirkyard; with some further notes on Tolquhon', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol.80
Page(s): 122