 Items recovered include; ""a quantity of regularly-laid stones were removed c.1734 and some silver coins"" as well as two kiln stands found in 1829 (today held in Marischal Museum, Aberdeen).In 1740 ""a man who drove his spade through the panel of a door was immediately suffocated"" having got caught in the sand and at an unknown date, a ""well-made causeway was discovered at the foot of the mound under which the Castle is said to be buried.