What is recorded here
Watties Spindles is a medieval farmstead and tower house in the Scottish Borders, where ordinary life and defensive ambition collided under one roof. The name suggests spinning thread or fate, while the tower suggests violence and fear. Both ideas fit the Borders, where households kept knives near looms and watched roads for raiders. A place like this may have been busy, loud and dangerous, with children running between rooms that doubled as prisons or towers.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Watties Spindles as Farmstead (medieval), Tower House (medieval). 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.
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