Ruined Boddam Castle 11 pics and video
The Boddam Castle lies 3 km South of Peterhead on a level promontory between two deep vertical sided sea inlets.
The castle is of the late 16th century and built by the Keith of Ludquharn. Three lightly fortified ranges form a courtyard 31 m by 28 m between sheer cliffs.
The remains of the 15-16th century Boddam Castle consist of the entrance archway, surmounted by a low gable, and one or two smaller arches as well as the complete foundation. What may have been the hinges of a drawbridge were found when a trench was cut in front of the entrance in 1868.
This was a seat of the Keiths of Ludquharn.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92; J B Pratt 1901; J Ferguson 1900.
Boddam Castle comprises the remains of a curtain wall, c.33.0m square, with the entrance in the W consisting of the W gable of a building with a round arched doorway and square window above. Three gun-loops are visible. The footings of a range of buildings remain within the enclosure against the N and S walls.
Boddam Castle was built in the late 16th century by the Ludquharn branch of the Keith family, whose other strongholds in the area are at Inverugie Castle and Ravenscraig Castle, west of Peterhead. Sir William Keith, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and Delaware, was born here in 1669.
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