 however there is no date or record of which plague and it is a very unlikely account.Today there is not much to be seen at the site as the remains have ""for a long period" [been] "covered with a deep soil, and now- the swords of the warlike house beaten literally into ploughshares"".In c.1730, a dig on the south-east ""side of the Castle-hill"... "found a great number of stones, supposed to belong to the kitchen of the castle, as"... "workmen found very large hearth-stones covered with ashes.""