What is recorded here

Old Slains Castle stands in Aberdeenshire as an 18th-century brigantine, its angular form built to cut through North Sea storms rather than hide from them. The structure still belongs to the county heritage record, yet the coast around it has changed so much that even its exact position remains uncertain. It is the kind of place where human ambition met sea fire and one of them forgot to leave marks behind.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Saint Andrew [possibly]: Old Slains Castle, North Sea as Brigantine (18th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Old Slains Castle was built by the Keith family in the late 16th century and is remembered as the childhood home of the 4th Earl Marischal, a key figure in Scottish history. It was later rebuilt in the 18th century and is associated with the Brigantine era of Scottish coastal defense and trade.

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