What is recorded here

Craigmillar Castle stands beside Edinburgh as a buried place where human remains still wait beneath the soil. The castle belongs to the city and the dead belong to it without a date or a name. That absence makes the stones sharper because love, fear and memory can still move through the unknown.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, Craigmillar Castle as Burial (period Unassigned), Human Remains (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Craigmillar Castle, near Edinburgh, was built in the late 14th century by the Douglas family, a powerful noble lineage in medieval Scotland. It is remembered for its strategic role in Scottish history and as a site associated with the 1528 murder of James V as a child, though the event's exact location remains debated.

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