What is recorded here

Harbottle Castle was a nineteenth-century schooner that sailed the North Sea, its name pretending to be a castle when it was only a ship. Aberdeen may have built her or lost her, but the sea keeps the difference hidden. A castle suggests stone and permanence, while a schooner suggests rope, salt and the chance of drowning. The contradiction is the story: human pride giving a small vessel a grand name, then the sea refusing to be impressed.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Harbottle Castle: North Sea as Schooner (19th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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