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| Kincardine Castle (Continued) | 7 [Continued from page 189] real extent of the town in that direction had only been from the East to the West Ports, a distance of about two hundred yards.[a] [a]The distance is about 730 yards B.R. [B. Render] Although no house remains to shew where the town of Kincardine stood, the side of both ports, and also that of the Marked Cross, are still pointed out [b] , and the old burial ground of St Catherine is laudably preserved, surrounded by a rude stone wall, and overshadowed by a few trees. It ought to be observed that the Cross, now preserved in the Village of Fettercairn is a memorial of later date, having been erected by the celebrated John, Earl of Middleton, and gifted by him to the town of Kincardine. He was born near that place, and latterly assumed his titles from lands which he held in the Same neighbourhood, and the Cross bears his own arms and initials, with the Scottish lion and the date of 1670." (Memorials of Angus & Mearns P [Pages] 82-87) "The ruins of the Palace or Castle of Kincardine stand on a wooded eminence, which rises thirty feet above the level of the adjoining lands, at the foot of the Cairn O' Mount road. The walls are composed of chisel hewn but mostly of hammer-dressed stones, and no part is more than eight feet high- they are of great strength being constructed on the same sloping principle as Harbours and Military fortifications. The ground plan is still traceable, and it appears , that, independent of the foundations of the strong gateway and tower, (which project twenty or thirty feet from the main building, and a Surrounding ditch and defensive outworks), the size of the Palace had been fully five hundred yards in Circumference, with an inner Court of about two hundred feet. It was inhabited on all sides except the west which is composed merely of a wall, in which there is an entrance of great width leading to the Court, but the principle entrance was on the South. There was also a door on the North, about a five [continued on page 191] |
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