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Wine Tower at Kinnaird Head Castle, Fraserburgh Harbour, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK #166104550
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The Wine Tower is most probably so-called because it was the wine-cellar of those who at one time resided in the nearby castle which is now the lighthouse. Under this tower is a cave more than 100 feet in length. Wine Tower: No satisfactory explanation of its existence has been produced for this tower. It is a 16th-century work, after the first quarter of that century, and built by the Frasers. It is built of very rough masonry in three stories, all vaulted, with walls about 5 ft thick and measures externally 26 feet 7 inches by 21 feet by 27 feet high. It is probably connected with the cave below.Lord Saltoun Saltoun 1963 states that the Wine Tower and Kinnaird NJ96NE 7 were `almost certainly successors one of another`. They were two of a chain of castles along the Buchan coast probably originated by the Comyns in the 13th century.