Waterton Castle

Waterton Castle is a ruined 17th-century tower house located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was originally owned by Kinloss Abbey and later acquired by the Knights Templar and the Bannermans around 1560. The Forbeses owned the property until 1770. It is believed that the castle was built between 1630 and 1640. In 1652, the Kennedys of Kermuck murdered John Forbes of Waterton. Today, only a vaulted basement remains, and a sketch from 1770 shows that the building was once a four-storey structure with wings on the east and west. The walls of the basement are 0.7 meters thick and up to 3 meters high. In 1844 a drinking horn was discovered in the castle ruins and donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in 1863.