Mains of Balfour — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

One course of massive boulder foundations still marks a 13.5m by 10.5m chamber in Aberdeenshire, large enough to have been a medieval tower or hall house. The missing walls may have been robbed, reused or simply forgotten after the family stopped claiming the land. A small circular stone lies nearby in a damp hollow, perhaps a well where water still gathers beneath grass.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Mains of Balfour as Hall House (medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval)(possible), Well (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

The Mains of Balfour is associated with the Balfour family, a historically significant Scottish clan, and dates to the medieval period. It is remembered as a possible hall house or tower house, reflecting the architectural and social structures of lowland Scotland during the Middle Ages.

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