Rattray Castle (2)
I try not to get too involved with castle mottes (or pillboxes for that matter!) - I've got enough to do with what I have already taken on, but this one is a bit interesting!  Not a lot interesting, just a bit!  

The historian William Douglas Simpson, the foremost authority on castles in North-east Scotland, liked to refer to 'The nine castles of the Knuckle', a group of significant ancient castles found around the coast of Buchan in Aberdeenshire, of which Rattray Castle was one.  

(The others were Dundarg, Pitsligo, Pitullie, Kinnaird, The Wine Tower (in Fraserburgh), Cairnbulg, Inverallochy and Lonmay (of which nothing survives.)
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