What is recorded here

Castle Maud stands in Aberdeenshire as a ruined medieval tower house, its rectangular stone foundation still visible beside a choked ditch. Local tradition claims the Bishops of Aberdeen hunted from this seat during the fourteenth century, turning a plain defensive shell into a place of leisure and power. The southeast corner has collapsed entirely, hiding the doorway that once admitted guests or guarded a lord, while loop holes pierce the remaining walls like empty eye sockets watching the Deeside hills.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Maud as Tower House (medieval). 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.

Built by the Maud family in the 14th century, Castle Maud is remembered as a medieval tower house that reflects the defensive and social structures of lowland Scotland during the late Middle Ages.

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