What is recorded here
Dupplin Castle, East Lodge and Gates stands in Perth and Kinross as a gate lodge and pier, though no date or builder is recorded. The stones may have marked the entrance to a grand estate, guiding carriages and riders along a road now forgotten. Without a name or time, the lodge becomes a threshold into imagination, inviting wonder about the lives that passed through its arch.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Dupplin Castle, East Lodge and Gates as Gate Lodge (period Unassigned), Gate Pier (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.
Dupplin Castle was originally built in the 13th century by the Comyn family, a powerful noble dynasty in medieval Scotland. It is historically significant as the site of the Battle of Dupplin Moor in 1332, a key engagement in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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