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Findlater Castle sits in a romantic position on a 50-foot-high cliff overlooking the Moray Firth on the coast of Banff And Buchan , Aberdeenshire , Scotland . It lies about 15 km (9.32 miles) west of Banff , near the village of Sandend , between Cullen and Portsoy . The cliffs here contain Quartz ; the name "Findlater" is derived from the Norse words ''fyn'' ("white") and ''leitr'' ("cliff"). The first historical reference to the castle is from 1246 . King Alexander III of Scotland repaired this castle in the 1260s in preparation for an invasion by King Haakon IV of Norway . The Vikings took and held the castle for some time. The castle remains that are still there are from the 14th-century rebuilding, when the castle was redesigned based on the Roslyn Castle model. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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