What is recorded here

Tinnis Castle is a stock enclosure in the Scottish Borders, not a castle at all. The name is an error born from distance and assumption. What is real is a boundary made for animals, perhaps still holding them back from grass or road. The mistake belongs everywhere now, repeating itself in every search and story.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Tinnis Castle as Stock Enclosure (period Unassigned). 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.

Tinnis Castle is a 16th-century tower house located in Orkney, Scotland, and was built by the Sinclair family, who were prominent in the region. It is remembered for its strategic importance and as an example of early defensive architecture in the Northern Isles.

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