What is recorded here

Ellon Castle, Terrace, Sundial is a lost marker on a castle terrace in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The terrace may have been a private garden where a sundial cast shadows across stone, but no date or owner is recorded. The castle itself is gone or hidden, leaving only the possibility that a terrace once existed and a sundial marked the hours there.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Ellon Castle, Terrace, 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.

Ellon Castle, Terrace, Sundial is associated with Ellon Castle, a 16th-century structure built by the Gordon family, who were prominent in northeast Scotland. The sundial is remembered as a historic feature linked to the castle's estate, reflecting the family's status and the architectural character of the period.

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