What is recorded here

Stobs Castle, Black Lodge stands in the Scottish Borders as a recorded lodge, its exact position known though its history remains shadowed. The name Black Lodge suggests darkness or secrecy, perhaps a warning to travellers or a marker of local character. Someone built it, lived there, and left it behind. The stones still hold that forgotten life, waiting for curiosity rather than certainty.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Stobs Castle, Black Lodge as Lodge (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.

Stobs Castle, Black Lodge, was a 17th-century structure associated with the Stobs estate in the Scottish Borders. It is remembered as part of the historic landscape linked to the military and agricultural development of the region during the post-medieval period.

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