What is recorded here

Aberdeenshire still holds the sundial recorded beside Castle Fraser, though no date or keeper has emerged to explain it. The stones may have marked prayer, labour or mere vanity, but they interrupted the sky with a line of human patience. That much remains visible even when the story behind the shadow has faded.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Fraser, Sundial as Sundial (period Unassigned). 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.

Castle Fraser, Sundial is associated with Castle Fraser, a historic tower house in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, built in the 16th century by the Fraser family, a prominent Scottish clan. The sundial is remembered as an example of domestic timekeeping in Scotland's medieval and early modern period.

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