Scotland · Still standing
Cardoness Castle
Cardoness Castle is a late 15th-century Scottish tower house near Gatehouse of Fleet in Kirkcudbrightshire, originally a MacCulloch seat. The five-storey rectangular tower sits within a low walled forecourt and is now in the care of Historic Environment Scotland and open to the public.
Its prime
1490
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1490
The shape it held in its prime.
A massive rectangular five-storey tower of roughly coursed grey rubble with dressed corner stones and small, irregularly spaced vertical slit-windows and rectangular openings. A single round-arched entrance is set above ground level and is reached by a long sloping stone ramp carried over a vaulted arch; a low stone retaining wall and grassy forecourt lie before the tower. At its prime the tower carried a continuous stone parapet and intact roofs, standing amid pasture and scattered trees.
Step inside
6 places to explore in 1490.
The record describes 6 distinct spots at Cardoness Castle — including 1 interior: vaulted undercroft beneath the ramp. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
Create History
See Cardoness Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1490 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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