What is recorded here
Easter Kinnear Tower stands in Fife as a medieval tower house, its stones unchanged since people first climbed its stairs. It may have hosted families, hidden goods or watched roads below, though no written account survives to confirm which. The tower still belongs to the land, waiting for someone curious enough to ask it what it remembers.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Easter Kinnear Tower as Tower House (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.
Easter Kinnear Tower is a medieval tower house located in Scotland, likely built by a local landholding family during the late 15th or early 16th century. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and residential architecture typical of the Scottish Borders during a period of frequent conflict.
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