Macharioch moth
| Macharioch moth | ||
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| Creation time : | unknown | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Motte) | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Construction: | Wood | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 19 '34 " N , 5 ° 35' 4.2" W | |
| Height: | 74 m ASL | |
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Macharioch Motte is an Outbound Turmhügelburg (Motte) in a field of Macharioch farm on the peninsula Kintyre in Scotland administrative unit Argyll and Bute . It is not known when the castle was built.
description
It is a mound on which a wooden moth once stood. The mound has the shape of a truncated cone and is partially surrounded by a ditch and an outer wall. The moat and wall once seem to have surrounded the mound to the east, south and west, while a steep slope on the north side protected the castle. In the southeast the moat is interrupted by a 1.2 meter wide dam, over which the entrance to the castle led. The summit plateau of the Mounds has a diameter of 7.5 meters. The difference in height between the summit plateau and the bottom of the trench is 2.1 meters; the trench is 1.8 meters wide.
swell
- Robert Liddiard: Anglo-Norman Castles . Woodbridge, 2002.
- Entry on Macharioch Motte in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database