What is recorded here

Thirlestane Castle still holds a wall in the Scottish Borders, though no date or room survives to explain it. The stones may have marked a boundary, a kitchen, or a chamber where people argued, loved, or bled. Lauder gives the wall its name, while absence gives it shape. What is missing is not nothing; it is the part that makes the wall worthy of remembering.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Lauder, Thirlestane Castle as Wall (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.

Thirlestane Castle near Lauder was built in the late 16th century by the powerful Lauder family, and later held by the Scotts of Thirlestane, a prominent Scottish noble family. It is important as a well-preserved example of late medieval and early Renaissance architecture in the Borders region of Scotland.

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