Huntly Castle — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Three castles have guarded the Deveron crossing at Huntly. The oldest is a grassy motte from the 12th century, still standing beside the ruins of a 15th-century towerhouse and a grander 16th-century palace. Its heraldic doorway, oriel windows and carved chimneypieces still shine through the decay, while a Civil War ravelin rises beyond the east front like a forgotten gun platform.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Huntly Castle as Castle (medieval), Motte and Bailey (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Huntly Castle was built by the Gordon family in the 13th century and later held by the Earls of Huntly, a powerful noble lineage in northeast Scotland. It is important as a historic seat of the Gordon earls and as a key site in the region's medieval political and military history.

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