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Affleck Castle is a late medieval tower house located in Angus, Scotland, dating from the fifteenth century. The castle comprises a five-storey rectangular keep with corner turrets, constructed in a typically Scottish defensive style characteristic of the period. Built by the Affleck family, whose lands lay in this region, the structure exemplifies the fortified domestic architecture favoured by minor nobility and gentry in late medieval Scotland. The castle remains a notable example of the tower house tradition that dominated Scottish castle-building from the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries.
Affleck Castle is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM90007. View the official record →
Affleck Castle is a late medieval tower house located in Angus, Scotland, dating from the fifteenth century. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM90007.
Affleck Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM90007.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Laws Hill,broch & fort (3.9 km), Ardestie, souterrain 400m NW of Mains of Ardestie (4.4 km), Woodhill, cursus 100m NW of (4.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Affleck Castle's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Affleck Castle stands on Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, bedrock that formed in the Pragian. The rock here is sandstone with subordinate conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone.