What is recorded here

Erchless Castle, Burial Ground holds post Medieval burials beside a medieval motte, marking the castle as both a home and a marker of local continuity. People may have walked past those stones for generations, reading names and dates while the castle watched the Highland sky. The place still belongs to memory, even when its details fade from ordinary conversation.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Erchless Castle, Burial Ground as Burial Ground (post Medieval), Motte (medieval). 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.

Erchless Castle was built by the Erchless family in the 13th century and is remembered as a significant medieval stronghold in the Scottish Borders, associated with local history and the region's turbulent past.

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