Moss Castle
Castle (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Moss Castle
Classification Castle (Medieval)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Cockpool; Moss Castle, Cummertrees; Southgate
Canmore ID 66749
Site Number NY17SW 4
NGR NY 1261 7234
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/66749
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Cummertrees
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY17SW 4 1261 7234
(NY 1261 7234) Moss Castle (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
Moss Castle, the original 15th c home of the Cokpule, or Cockpool, family, comprises an earthen rampart 5' - 9' high, shallow trench 32' wide with a mound above the counterscarp, with entrance on the E.
RCAHMS 1920; R C Reid 1955
The remains of this sub-circular work consist of a stony bank with an outer ditch and traces of a counterscarp bank. There is an entrance on the E. The interior is overgrown and there is no evidence of any buildings. This work occupies a non-defensive situation and is similar to many Iron Age settlements in the area. That it was later occupied by a 15th c building cannot be confirmed.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (JP) 22 February 1973.
Listed as Southgate, settlement 350m N of... the earthwork remains of a later prehistoric settlement...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 29 August 2007.
Note (1997)
NY 1261 7234 NY17SW 4
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.