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Annan Castle, Scotland
Annan Castle
locality:-   Annan
country:-   Scotland
locality type:-   castle
coordinates:-   NY19216676
1Km square:-   NY1966
10Km square:-   NY16

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CBR31.jpg (taken 13.9.2014)  
evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Anand Castle
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Building with two towers, symbol for a castle.  "Anand cast"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Burghley 1590 (facsimile) 
placename:-  Annand Castel
source data:-   Facsimile map, A Platt of the Opposete Border of Scotland to ye West Marches of England, parts of Cumberland and Scotland including the Debateable Land, from a manuscript drawn for William Cecil, Lord Burghley, about 1590, published by R B Armstrong, 1897.
courtesy of the National Library of Scotland
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"Annand cast."
walls, two towers 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : MS6113 f.267
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Anand Castle
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"Anand cast."
circle, towers; Scotland 
item:-  private collection : 16
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Anand Castle
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"Anand cast"
Buildings and tower with flag. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Anand Castle
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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"Anand Castle"
Circle, building with two towers. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old text:- Ayton and Daniell 1814-25
source data:-   Tour, A Voyage Round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813 ..., by Richard Ayton, illustrated by William Daniell, published in 8 volumes, 1814, 1815, 1818, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1824, and 1825.
"The great Robert the Bruce had a castle at Annan, and I was shown a high mount, partly artificial, in a gentleman's garden, which he was willing (and I heartily went along with him) to think the site of it ..."
hearsay:-  
 David , King of Scots, granted the lands of Annandale to the Brus family in the 12th century. The Bruces built a castle at Annan, about 1124. The site was fairly soon abandoned because of flooding (the bailey is now partly washed away) and a new castle was built at Lochmaben. Roberth The Bruce, 7th Lord of Annandale, seized the crown during the War of Independence, 1306.
notes:-  
 If the castle was abandoned probably in the 12th century it can hardly be the one plotted by Saxton in the 16th century?
The map of Annandiae Praefectura, vulgo the Stewartrie of Annandail, drawn by Timothy Pont, engraved by Johannes Bleau does not show a castle at Annan (ther is one at Newby).
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