What is recorded here

Unknown: Slains Castle, North Sea is an 18th Century craft recorded in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The official map places it within a kilometre of the true point, while the sea keeps the exact line hidden. A wooden deck may have caught North Sea wind above that coast, carrying fish, people or messages before stone castles swallowed the memory. The water still moves where the timber disappeared.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Unknown: Slains Castle, North Sea as Craft (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.

Slains Castle, located on the North Sea coast in Aberdeenshire, was built by the Keith family in the late 15th century and significantly expanded in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is remembered as a historic seat of the Earls Marischal and for its striking coastal location and architectural heritage.

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