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| [Green Castle continued] | [continued from page 159] of a vitrified structure near Balbegno in the adjoining parish" (Notice in New Stat Act [New Statistical Account] by Dr [Doctor] Leslie. "From Fordon about four and a half miles west north west, there was a Roman Post, at Clattering Bridge which is now known by the name of Green Castle. It was advantageously placed here for the obvious purpose of guarding the well known passage through the Grampian Mountains by the Cairn O' Mount into the valley of the Mearns.- I caused this remarkable Post to be surveyed in May 1798 it stands on a precipitous bank on the North East of the Clattering Burn, the area of the Fort measures 157 feet 9 Inches at the North East End, and at the South west 82 feet 6 inches, the length is 262 feet 6 Inches, the ditch is 37 feet 6 Inches broad at the bottom.- The rampart which is wholly of earth is in height from the bottom of the ditch 51 feet 9 inches." __ (Chalmer's Caledonia" ) " Green Castle or the Queen's Castle is another ancient fabric, and is situated on the Steep side of a hill about a mile north, from the ruins of ancient Kincardine part of which is said to have been called the King's Castle, it has more the semblance of a Camp than of a Palace being a regular square defended by a ditch so very deep that the excavated earth forms a rampart of from 10 to 12 feet higher than the interior which is a flat area of a quarter of an acre in extent. The access is from the east or the upper part of the hill. Towards the west it is by nature so precipitous as to be almost inaccessible and must of Course have been in those times before Artillery was known a place of great security. It is at present held in feu of the Viscount Arbuthnott by Mr Crombie of Phesdo who has lately planted it with wood which having every appearance of thriving will a few years hence be a very conspicuous ornament to this part of the Country. This place is thought by some to be the true Castle of Finella and its being situated at the entrance of Strathfinella and on the end of the hill of Strathfinella gives some room for the conjecture." (Robertson's Agricultural Survey Date 1807) |
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