What is recorded here
Ashkirk, Palace Walls stands in the Scottish Borders as a possible medieval building and a certain medieval ewer, reducing grand palace claims to a small water vessel and uncertain stones. The contrast is funny because greatness often hides inside ordinary things, yet the wall may never have existed beyond memory. A person could have poured water from that ewer while debating whether the palace was true, turning uncertainty into a game instead of a warning.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Ashkirk, Palace Walls as Building (medieval)(possible), Ewer (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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Places near here
Ashkirk Parish Church, Gate Piers and GatesGate(s) (period Unknown), Gate Pier(s) (period Unknown) · 186 yd
Ashkirk Parish ChurchChurch (18th Century), War Memorial(s) (20th Century) · 208 yd
Ashkirk Parish Church, ChurchyardBurial Enclosure (17th Century), Burial Ground (period Unknown) · 228 yd
AshkirkFindspot (period Unassigned), Lithic Implement (flint)(period Unassigned) · 507 yd
Salenside PlantationForest · 1353 yd
Stobshaw HillMountain / peak · 1667 yd
Cross WoodWood · 1.3 mi
Grain HillMountain / peak · 1.3 mi
North SyntonArchitectural Fragment (period Unknown), Farmhouse (19th Century), Farmstead (19th Century), Tower House (16th Century) - (19th Century), Quern (period Unknown) · 1.7 mi
MuirfieldNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 3.3 mi
Philiphaugh, SelkirkNo Class (event) (21st Century) · 3.8 mi
General's TowerCastle · 3.9 mi