What is recorded here

Freswick Castle stands on the Caithness coast as a medieval tower house where seventeenth-century walls still rise beside a wide sandy bay. Beneath the modern building, older stones and grass-tempered pottery suggest Norse-era life occupied the same ground centuries before the castle took shape. The layered site keeps revealing itself through renovation and digging, as if the coast itself refuses to stop remembering.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Freswick Castle as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Freswick Castle was a medieval tower house built by the Freswick family in the 15th or 16th century. It is remembered as a typical example of a Scottish tower house, reflecting the defensive and social structures of the period.

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