What is recorded here

Auchenhove Castle, Eastermains stands in Aberdeenshire as a medieval castle later reused as an 18th Century farmstead, with old rig and furrow still shaping the land around it. The stones may have moved from martial pride to household routine, yet the earth keeps both memories: battle, birth, bread, and the small violence of ploughing through what before seemed permanent.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Auchenhove Castle, Eastermains as Castle (medieval), Farmstead (18th Century), Rig and Furrow (medieval) - (post Medieval). 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.

Auchenhove Castle, Eastermains was built in the medieval period, likely by a local landholding family in what was then the Scottish Borders region. It is remembered for its historical association with the area's medieval agricultural and defensive landscape.

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