A charity that looks after a historic Scottish castle has blasted Instagram users, savaging them for tearing down an ancient structure in search of the perfect selfie Ardvreck Castle has stood for 500 years but is now threatened with demolition by selfie-seekers (Image: Historic Assynt / SWNS)

"Entitled Instagram vandals" are in the crosshairs of a Scottish charity after a 500-year-old castle wall was knocked over, reports the Daily Mail .

Historic Assynt, which protects historic sites from vandals, said visitors to Ardvreck Castle at Lairg in Scotland had "ripped down" part of the historic structure. Tourists, it said, don't want to get "their little tootsies wet" so tore down part of the wall to get to the site without having to walk across the beach.

But the charity says

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