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Site of OLIVER CASTLE Oliver Castle Site of Mr Tweedie Stoddart Oliver
Tweedie McGarth Bield
019 [Situation] About ⅜ of a Mile N.W. [North West] of Church
This is site of the old castle of Oliver the paternal seat of the Frasers of Oliver, subsequently of Lovat : It was subsequently the stronghold of the Tweedies of Oliver. It is on an Emininence which is planted with Fir Trees and Surrounded by a wall; the site can only be traced out from the inequalities of the surface.
It is the Property of the Earl of Wemyss

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Parish of Tweedsmuir Sheet 19 No. 16 Trace 1

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