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Castleton

Chapel (period Unknown), Cist(s) (period Unknown)(possible), Well (period Unknown)

What is recorded here

A hidden chapel and a possible cist in Aberdeenshire, with a well beside them. The dates have gone missing, but the shapes remain: a prayer room, a dead man's box, and water for both. Perhaps neighbours built the chapel around the well because the water never failed, then buried their dead where the prayers already stood.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castleton as Chapel (period Unknown), Cist(s) (period Unknown)(possible), Well (period Unknown). 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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