What is recorded here

Ballinbreich Castle is a ruined three-storey tower house in Fife, built by Clan Leslie in the 14th century and rebuilt several times, with much of the present structure dating to the 16th century. It overlooks the Firth of Tay and may once have had an outer curtain-wall, though no trace of that wall survives today. Mary, Queen of Scots stayed there in 1563 and 1565, Regent Morton passed through in 1575, and James VI stopped at the castle in 1583 before continuing to Lordscarnie. The site also holds a bronze flanged axehead, a button and unidentified medieval pottery, hinting that people lived, worked and perhaps played there long before the Leslie tower rose.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Ballinbreich Castle as Button (period Unassigned), Flanged Axehead (bronze)(period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (medieval). 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.

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