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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
ROB GIBB'S or CARRIBBER CASTLE Carribber Castle (in Ruins)
Carribber Castle (in Ruins)
Carribber
Rob Gibb's or Carribber Castle
Rob Gibb's or Carribber Castle
Rob Gibb's or Carribber Castle
W. Blair Esqre.
J Hardy Esqre.
Sibbald's History
Rev Dr. [Reverend Doctor] Bell Linlithgow
Mr William Millar Linlithgow
Mr. Blair Braehead
005 [situation] 21 Chains WNW [West North West] of Easter Carribber
The crumbling walls of the Old Castle stands on a high and very precipitous wooded bank on the south side of the River Avon and a ΒΌ mile W.N.W. [West North West] of Easter Carribber. It is square in form, but could not have been of any great strength as the walls are not more than 2 feet thick, the walls as they now stand are six or seven feet high on the S.E. & W [South East & West] without openings except a door in the W. [West] wall - the North wall is considerably higher and retain two apertures like windows but much dilapidated. At the S [South] end of the ruin is an enclosed oblong space
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