What is recorded here

Nine metres of west wall still stand beside a turf-covered rubble mound in Aberdeenshire, marking the ghost of a small castle with two towers. Stones salvaged from the ruin now embed in nearby steadings, including a dormer lintel carved IG 1583 RG and a worn door lintel bearing AN.WG 16..., proving the building survived into the late sixteenth century. The castle did not vanish whole; it was broken open, carried away and reborn as ordinary house walls, while the field kept only enough shape to remind people that a hall once stood there.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Tillyhilt Castle as Castle (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.

Tillyhilt Castle was a medieval stronghold, likely built in the 13th or 14th century, and is remembered as part of the historic landscape of central Scotland, reflecting the region's feudal past and defensive architecture.

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