What is recorded here

Proncy Castle is a turf-covered tower foundation set upon an older motte in Dornoch, marked on the national record as a quarry rather than a home. Quarrying cut through the entrance and stripped away much of the wall, leaving only a level mound, scattered grouted stone and a faint ditch beside dry valleys. Hugo Freskyn granted the lands to Gilbert de Moravia around 1211, yet the shape of the place still resists explanation: a castle built on a mound, then a mound dug for stone, then a quarry remembered as a castle.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Proncy Castle as Quarry (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.

Proncy Castle is a medieval tower house located in the Scottish Borders, built in the 15th or 16th century, likely by a local landholding family. It is remembered for its strategic position near the English border, reflecting the turbulent history of the region during the Wars of Scottish Independence and later border conflicts.

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