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<< Our Photo Pages >> Dundarg Castle - Hillfort in Scotland in Aberdeenshire

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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Dundarg Castle
Country: Scotland County: Aberdeenshire Type: Hillfort

Map Ref: NJ895648  Landranger Map Number: 30
Latitude: 57.672945N  Longitude: 2.177693W
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Dundarg Castle
Dundarg Castle submitted by bardofthebroch : Photo showing The gateway to Dundarg Castle and the promonotory on the Moray Firth shore. Stan Bruce (Vote or comment on this photo)
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Dundarg Castle
Dundarg Castle submitted by bardofthebroch : Remains of the gateway to Dundarg Castle which is basically all that is left of the castle sited on a promontory on the Moray Firth coast near New Aberdour about halfway between Macduff and Fraserburgh. Stan Bruce (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Dundarg Castle by Anonymous on Monday, 06 November 2006
I UNDERSTAND THIS CASTLE WAS SOMEHOW CONNECTED TO THE COMYN/CUMMINGS. TRUE???????????
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    Re: Dundarg Castle by bardofthebroch on Sunday, 29 July 2007
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    Dundarg Castle – Perhaps once a Pict settlement or even the site of St Drostan’s 6th century chapel, Dundarg today remains mysterious. The castle of Dundarg (The red fort) once stood on this red sandstone promontory but all that remains today is part of the gateway. The castle was destroyed in 1308 during King Robert the Bruce’s ‘Harrying of Buchan’, however in 1333 Henry de Beaumont, who fought at Bannockburn for the English, an ally of King Edward II of England and son-in-law of William Comyn Earl of Buchan until 1308 rebuilt it for his own use anticipating a new invasion of Scotland by the English. Regent Andrew Moray (The guardian of Scotland) captured the castle in 1334 and it is said that he was the first person to use cannons to attack a Scottish castle; he must have been impressed with the cannons because he nearly completely destroyed it.

    William Douglas Simpson (1896-1968), historian and archaeologist headed an archaeological excavation at Dundarg 1950 – 1951.

    There was also an excavation in 1981.

    In the Marischal Museum in Aberdeen there is a Point from a prehistoric ‘Ard-share’ (A primitive plough), found at ‘Dundarg Castle’ by William Simpson during his 1951 dig. The Ard-share made of oak is likely to have been used by very early farmers and it was used to cut a narrow channel in the ground rather than turning it over. The seeds would then have been planted in the channel and covered with earth.

    Access to the castle is through private land so please ask at the house if you intend to visit it.

    Stanley Bruce
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