LONG-BURIED SCOTTISH CASTLE
Mr W. Douglas Simpson, lecturer in British History at Aberdeen University recently made public for the first time tho results attained through the excavations by himself and a party of boy scouts last summer, which revealed the long-buried and almost forgotten Coull Castle, in the Cromar district of Aberdeenshire. This stronghold was the headquarters of the once powerful family of Durwards in the twelfth century. That the fate of the castle bad been a violent one, Mr Simpson said, the excavations abundantly revealed. Traces of fire were everywhere found, and the solid stone fabric showed signs of deliberate dismantlement, tho wails being overthrown in long stretches, and the towers breached. 1 <" It was reasonable to assume, remarked tho lecturer, that it had been captured and destroyed in 1307, when Bruce invadod Aberdeenshire, and won. the Battle of Inverurie. Bruce’s policy was to dismantle castles as soon as ho recovered them, and Coull Castle was known to have been built by the English as late as July, 1305. ,
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11855, 14 June 1924, Page 14
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