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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BALVENIE CASTLE (In Ruins) Balvenie Castle (In ruins).

Castle of Balveny
Castle of Balveny
Castle of Balveny
J Findlater Esqr. Balvenie
James Grant Dufftown
Robert Wiseman Dufftown
New Statistical Account
Old Statistical Account
Fullarton's Gazetteer
025.05 Tradition calls the oldest part of this ruin a Pictish tower. On the north east corner there is a small tower Known by the name of Execution Tower where the criminals condemned were hanged next to this is a small compartment where criminals were confined Known by the name of jail and adjoining to this is the smithy on the south side of the entrance a small compartment called the Armoury a place where arms and instruments of war were deposited and on the South East corner was the chapel a place where they assembled for religious purposes. The whole of which was surrounded by a flooded ditch and entered by a draw bridge. The Structure is of various dates and is not know when they were first built. The oldest or east wing is supposed to have existed at the time of the battle of Mortlach. Nearly the whole of the building is still standing but in a ruinous state it belonged Successively to the Comyns, Douglases and Stuarts and is now the property of the Earl of Fife. [continued on page 61]
EXECUTION TOWER [Balvenie Castle] 025.05 Tradition calls the oldest part of this ruin a Pictish tower. On the north east corner there is a small tower Known by the name of Execution Tower where the criminals condemned were hanged next to this is a small compartment where criminals were confined Known by the name of jail and adjoining to this is the smithy on the south side of the entrance a small compartment called the Armoury a place where arms and instruments of war were deposited and on the South East corner was the chapel a place where they assembled for religious purposes. The whole of which was surrounded by a flooded ditch and entered by a draw bridge. The Structure is of various dates and is not know when they were first built. The oldest or east wing is supposed to have existed at the time of the battle of Mortlach. Nearly the whole of the building is still standing but in a ruinous state it belonged Successively to the Comyns, Douglases and Stuarts and is now the property of the Earl of Fife. [continued on page 61]
CHAPEL [Balvenie Castle] 025.05 Tradition calls the oldest part of this ruin a Pictish tower. On the north east corner there is a small tower Known by the name of Execution Tower where the criminals condemned were hanged next to this is a small compartment where criminals were confined Known by the name of jail and adjoining to this is the smithy on the south side of the entrance a small compartment called the Armoury a place where arms and instruments of war were deposited and on the South East corner was the chapel a place where they assembled for religious purposes. The whole of which was surrounded by a flooded ditch and entered by a draw bridge. The Structure is of various dates and is not know when they were first built. The oldest or east wing is supposed to have existed at the time of the battle of Mortlach. Nearly the whole of the building is still standing but in a ruinous state it belonged Successively to the Comyns, Douglases and Stuarts and is now the property of the Earl of Fife. [continued on page 61]
FOSSE (Remain of) [Balvenie Castle] 025.05 Tradition calls the oldest part of this ruin a Pictish tower. On the north east corner there is a small tower Known by the name of Execution Tower where the criminals condemned were hanged next to this is a small compartment where criminals were confined Known by the name of jail and adjoining to this is the smithy on the south side of the entrance a small compartment called the Armoury a place where arms and instruments of war were deposited and on the South East corner was the chapel a place where they assembled for religious purposes. The whole of which was surrounded by a flooded ditch and entered by a draw bridge. The Structure is of various dates and is not know when they were first built. The oldest or east wing is supposed to have existed at the time of the battle of Mortlach. Nearly the whole of the building is still standing but in a ruinous state it belonged Successively to the Comyns, Douglases and Stuarts and is now the property of the Earl of Fife.
DRAW BRIDGE (Site of) [Balvenie Castle] 025.05 Tradition calls the oldest part of this ruin a Pictish tower. On the north east corner there is a small tower Known by the name of Execution Tower where the criminals condemned were hanged next to this is a small compartment where criminals were confined Known by the name of jail and adjoining to this is the smithy on the south side of the entrance a small compartment called the Armoury a place where arms and instruments of war were deposited and on the South East corner was the chapel a place where they assembled for religious purposes. The whole of which was surrounded by a flooded ditch and entered by a draw bridge. The Structure is of various dates and is not know when they were first built. The oldest or east wing is supposed to have existed at the time of the battle of Mortlach. Nearly the whole of the building is still standing but in a ruinous state it belonged Successively to the Comyns, Douglases and Stuarts and is now the property of the Earl of Fife. [continued on page 61]

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County of Banff -- Parish of Mortlach

[signed] James Gray
Lc Corpl RE [Lance Corporal Royal Engineers]

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