What is recorded here
Mains of Auchmedden stands in Aberdeenshire as a medieval castle, its walls likely built to watch the land rather than invite strangers inside. The main house may have held heat, arguments and dreams while its towers marked power across open fields. That much structure still belongs to memory even when no door remains for a modern visitor.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Mains of Auchmedden as Castle (medieval). 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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Places near here
Mains of AuchmeddenFarmstead (period Unassigned) · 191 yd
Pennan FarmFarmhouse (19th Century), Farmstead (19th Century) · 668 yd
PennanScraper (tool) (flint)(period Unassigned) · 777 yd
Pennan BayBay · 1350 yd
Litterty HillCairn (period Unassigned) · 1452 yd
Mill ShoreBeach / strand · 1706 yd
Cullykhan BayBay · 1.1 mi
CullykhanBattery (18th Century), Castle (medieval), Promontory Fort (later Prehistoric) · 1.3 mi
Ceard's CoveCave (period Unassigned) · 1.8 mi
Jane Whyte MemorialMemorial · 2.1 mi
New Aberdour BeachBeach / strand · 2.2 mi
New Aberdour War MemorialMemorial · 2.3 mi