Migvie Castle
| Migvie Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | only foundations | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Rubble stone with lime mortar | |
| Place: | Migvie | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 8 '48.5 " N , 2 ° 55' 59.2" W | |
| Height: | 255 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Migvie Castle is the ruin of a low castle west of the village of Migvie in the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire .
history
The castle is in a strategic position on the old road north from Aboyne to Strathdon on the top of a hill. It was first mentioned in a charter from Uilleam, Earl of Mar in 1268 . It was the seat of the Lords of Cromar and the caput of the Baronate Cromar . In the 1440s, Migvie Castle belonged to the Rutherford of Tarland clan and in 1452 it fell to Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly . The castle was already uninhabitable in 1565.
description
Today you can only see slight traces of the curtain wall above ground . The foundations, which are covered with grass and scrub, indicate a rectangular floor plan measuring 45 meters by 23 meters. The best preserved part of the enclosing wall is to the west of the site, where it is 0.9 meters high and 1.8 meters wide. It is made of quarry stone bonded with lime mortar . Migvie Castle is a Scheduled Monument .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Martin Coventry: The Castles of Scotland . Goblinshead, Musselburgh 2001. ISBN 1-899874-26-7 . P. 233.
- ↑ a b c d e Scheduled Monument - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ a b c Entry on Migvie Castle in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)