What is recorded here

Pitellachie is a castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, named for its defensive purpose before modern boundaries or dating systems clarified its age. The word castle itself reveals the intent: a place built to dominate, protect, or exclude. Whether it stood as a lord's seat, a border strongpoint, or a forgotten military post, its name preserves the ambition of the hands that raised it. Stone and intention still meet there, even when the date has slipped from human memory.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Pitellachie, 'castle' as Building (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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