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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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Site of LEUCHARS CASTLE | Leuchars Castle [site of] Leuchars Castle [site of] Leuchars Castle [site of] |
David Wilkie Sfield [Southfield] John Scott James Melville Leuchars |
006 | [situation] About 1 1/2 Miles N. by W. [North by West] from Leuchars Church. The Site of a Castle on the farm of Leuchars Castle. No trace of the building now remains and the spot pointed out as its Site has been repeatedly cultivated Since the year 1832 which is the date on which the last remains of it then, and long before a roofless ruin was wholly cleared away, it stood on an artificial Mound and was Surrounded with a deep fosse - or ditch Still distinctly visible, and over which it is said there was a Draw-bridge. there is no local knowledge of the date of its erection or by whom but is Said to have been a baronial residence and that baronial Courts were held in it. |
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