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High Drummore

Motte (Medieval)

Site Name High Drummore

Classification Motte (Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) High Drummore Mote

Canmore ID 60972

Site Number NX13NW 12

NGR NX 12985 35932

NGR Description Centre

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Kirkmaiden
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Wigtown
  • Former County Wigtownshire

Archaeology Notes

NX13NW 12 1297 3592.

(NX 1299 3591) Mote (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

This motte (R W Feachem 1956) was protected on the W by a rampart and ditch, now almost obliterated by a field dyke and cultivation. On this side, the mound is 10' high, but is 23' high to the E. The summit is c. 40' in diameter, and has a hollow c. 18' across and 3' - 4' deep, with an entrance from the E. From its base on either side a rampart passes down the slope towards the E with an interspace of 60', forming a base court into which there was an entrance now c. 8' wide, at the base of the mound on the S. The rampart on the S of the base court is c. 24' thick at base and 6' high externally. Between it and the edge of the glen lies a terrace 20' wide near the mound, decreasing to the E where it is 6' wide. There is no return of the ramparts across the slope at the E end.

RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911

No trace remains of a rampart and ditch around the W side of the motte, and the hollow in the top of the motte is probably only a mutilation. Otherwise as described.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (DWR) 28 January 1972

This motte-and-bailey castle is situated at the tip of a promontory 60m N of High Drummore farmstead. The motte rises to a height of 2.5m and is oval summit, which has been dug into, measures 10m by 6.3m. The bailey lies on the E and measures 28m by 20m within a bank (up to 7.2m thick and 2.5m high on the S), which originally also enclosed the motte; the W section, however, has been removed by cultivation. The entrance was probably on the S.

W M'llwraith 1877; R W Feachem 1956; G Stell 1972; RCAHMS 1912; 1985, visited June 1984

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Note (23 November 2021)

The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed.

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