What is recorded here

Castle Menzies is a sixteenth-century Z-shaped stronghold in Perth and Kinross, built after the Place at Weem burned in 1502 and enlarged into a defensible residence with two towers. It later lost its fortress character in 1577, survived Jacobite occupations in 1715 and 1745, and gained new wings in the early 1700s and 1840 before the Menzies line ended without heirs in 1910. Beneath or beside all that, prehistoric roundhouses and a man-made underground passage still belong to the same place, as if the castle kept occupying land already familiar to older hands.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Menzies as Palisaded Enclosure(s) (period Unassigned), Roundhouse(s) (prehistoric), Man-made underground passage(s) (prehistoric). 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.

Castle Menzies was built by the Menzies family, a prominent Scottish clan, with significant development occurring in the 13th century, though the site may have had earlier prehistoric features. It is important as a historic seat of the Clan Menzies and as an example of medieval Scottish castle architecture.

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