DUFFUS CASTLE

One of the finest examples of a motte and bailey castle in Scotland with a later, very fine, stone hall house and curtain wall. The original seat of the Moray family.

Duffus Castle served as a fortress-residence for over five hundred years. During that time the place underwent great changes, none more radical than the replacement of the original earth and timber castle by one built of stone and lime.

When the first castle was built about AD1150, it was among the foremost defensible strongholds in Scotland. By the time of it’s abandonment in 1705, the once mighty medieval castle was little more than a decaying fragment of history, completely unsuited to nobility.

Edited text from the Historic Scotland web site.
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Location 5m NW of Elgin on the B9012.
Region: Moray.