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Castle Newe

Man-made underground passage (prehistoric), Armlet(s) (bronze)(period Unassigned), Bead(s) (period Unassigned), Coin (roman), Quern (period Unassigned)

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Castle Newe stands in Aberdeenshire as the broken remains of a house that became a castle only in memory. Its barrel-vaulted cellar and corridor still lie low in the Strathdon earth, marked by a 1604 datestone once set above the door of the later House of Newe. The building changed twice, in 1791 and 1831, before disappearing around the mid-twentieth century. What is left is not a fortress but a shape repeated until it became true: a domestic room enlarged until it sounded like a castle.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Newe as Man-made underground passage (prehistoric), Armlet(s) (bronze)(period Unassigned), Bead(s) (period Unassigned), Coin (roman), Quern (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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