What is recorded here

Castlecary is a narrow valley chokepoint where the Bonny Water meets the Red Burn, hemmed by impassable bogs and marked by a Roman fort, a possible twelfth-century motte, and a later tower house. The name may preserve the old fort at the burn rather than any single castle, suggesting the place has continually attracted defence and control. Men have marched, built and bled along this same narrow ridge since the second century, making Castlecary less a castle site than a long-lived knot of power.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castlecary as Linear Feature (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.

Built by the de Cary family in the 12th century, Castlecary is remembered as a significant medieval stronghold in the Stirlingshire area, strategically located near the Roman Antonine Wall.

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