What is recorded here

Kilspindie Castle was lost when its stones were carted away to build other houses in Aberlady, leaving only a doorway base and gun-loop wall behind St Mary's Kirk. That theft is easier to imagine than the life inside: a tower rising from tidal marsh, its ditch filling and emptying with the sea while people moved through a heavy studded door now trapped in Luffness House. The castle did not fade so much as it was eaten, redistributed into walls, roads and rooms where its name disappeared.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Kilspindie as Architectural Fragment(s) (17th Century), Castle (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.

Kilspindie was a medieval castle later modified in the 17th century, though specific builders or holders are not recorded. It is remembered as a historic site reflecting the evolution of Scottish castle architecture over several centuries.

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