Wine Tower
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 Wine Tower |
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| Creation time : | 16th Century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg , spur location | |
| Conservation status: | well preserved | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Fraserburgh | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 41 '53.4 " N , 2 ° 0' 19" W | |
| Height: | 10 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Wine Tower is a tower about 50 meters from Kinnaird Castle on Kinnaird Head in the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire . The tower dates from the 16th century and probably got its name because it served as a wine cellar for the nearby castle .
description
The high entrance to the tower is on the first floor of the three-story building and is accessible via an external staircase. The quarry stone building with a footprint of 8.1 meters by 6.4 meters contains a number of beautifully hewn hanging decorations. The tower is about 8.2 meters high. Each floor contains a room; the master bedroom with vestibule is on the 1st floor. The room on the 2nd floor is accessible via a straight staircase, the room on the ground floor via a floor hatch.
legend
A member of the Fraser family once locked up his daughter's friend and drowned him in the room on the ground floor, which was sparsely lit through a slit-shaped window in the north wall, and in the cave below . The daughter then jumped from the roof of the tower. Red paint was applied to the rocks below the tower to represent her blood. It is said that the tower is haunted by ghosts.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wine Tower . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
- ↑ a b c Scheduled Monument - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ John Cranna: Fraserburgh: Past and present 1914, pp. 394-395 (accessed March 2, 2018).