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Pitfour Castle

Tower House (16th Century)

What is recorded here

Maddox lifted the first clay ball and threw it through the glass. The chamber shook, but the door remained sealed. He drove the second ball into the hinge and the bronze frame flew open.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Pitfour Castle as Tower House (16th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Pitfour Castle is a 16th-century tower house located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is historically significant as an example of the defensive and domestic architecture typical of the period in the Scottish northeast.

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