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Kinneff Castle

Castle (Medieval), Earthwork(S) (Medieval)

Site Name Kinneff Castle

Classification Castle (Medieval), Earthwork(S) (Medieval)

Canmore ID 36828

Site Number NO87SE 2

NGR NO 85654 74720

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Kinneff
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Kincardine And Deeside
  • Former County Kincardineshire

Archaeology Notes

NO87SE 2 8564 7471.

(NO 8564 7471) Kinneff Castle (NR) (site of)

OS 1:10000 map (1973)

The foundations of Kinneff Castle were traceable until a few years before 1914.

J C Watt 1914

Nothing remains of Kinneff Castle but a block of fallen masonry and unintelligible wall-footings.

Visited by OS (NKB) 19 December 1967

Listed.

Scottish Castle Survey 1988; N Bogdan and I B D Bryce 1991.

Activities

Field Visit (March 1982)

Kinneff Castle NO 856 747 NO87SE 2

Kinneff Castle occupies a steep-sided promontory 200m0SE of Kinneff parish church (NO87SE 1); only one fragment of wall is visible, but on the NW and SW there is a prominent scarp which is probably all that remains of a substantial earthwork defence. The castle was in existence by 1336, when it was repaired and garrisoned by the English, and it had become ruinous by the early 18th century.

RCAHMS 1982, visited March 1982

(NSA, xi, Kincardine), 314; Macfarlane 1906-8, i, 257; DES, 1960, 28; Nicholson 1974, 134)

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