What is recorded here

Aberdeen's Municipal Buildings and Tolbooth stand on Castle Street, carrying a seventeenth-century tolbooth frame and a nineteenth-century sundial. The tolbooth served the city's public business while the sundial marked daylight across the street. Together they measure both human law and natural time, inviting people to watch the shadow move while remembering the building's older civic purpose.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Aberdeen, Castle Street, Municipal Buildings and Tolbooth as Sundial (19th Century), Tolbooth (17th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

The 17th-century Tolbooth in Aberdeen was built by the city authorities to serve as a prison, town hall, and market. It is remembered as a significant civic and judicial building in the history of Aberdeen.

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