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 MAR CASTLE 139 FOURTH PERIOD to the courtyard. In front of this are seen the parapets of the bridge which crosses the ancient dry moat. FIG. 596. Hoddam Castle. View from the South-West. MAR CASTLE, ABERDEENSHIRE. This castle, famous as the scene of the raising of the standard of the Chevalier St. George by the Earl of Mar in 1715, stands on a rocky mound near the south bank of the Dee, and within a mile of the town of Castleton of Braemar. Towards the close of Queen Mary's reign the Earl of Mar excambed the lands of Monaltrie with the Farquharson's lands of Castletown, " and soon after the Earl had acquired the property he built the castle, and it was made a garrison for troops to keep the country in awe." 1 1 New History of Aberdeenshire, by Alexander Smith, C.E., p. 397.