Banff, Castle Street — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Castle Street in Banff, Aberdeenshire, is an event rather than a building, leaving behind no wall to touch or room to enter. It exists only as a point on the national record, accurate to the nearest hundred metres, where the land itself may have witnessed the unknown. The absence of a structure does not diminish the event; it widens the chance that people lived, failed, loved or disappeared there before the street took its present shape.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Banff, Castle Street as No Class (event) (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Banff, Castle Street is associated with the historic town of Banff in Moray, Scotland, and its strategic importance dates back to the medieval period when it was held by the powerful Comyn family. The site is remembered for its role in the Wars of Scottish Independence and as a location linked to the murder of John Comyn, later known as the "Red Comyn," by Robert the Bruce in 1306.

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