What is recorded here
Castle Forbes Policies is a rig and furrow landscape in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, marked in the national record as medieval to post medieval. The ridges may have guided carts, rain or feet long before roads existed. They still reshape the light at dusk, and they may have fed the forbes who lived beside them.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Forbes Policies as Rig and Furrow (medieval) - (post 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.
The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.
Places near here
Bridge of KeigRoad Bridge (period Unassigned) · 379 yd
Putachie CottageRig and Furrow (medieval) - (post Medieval) · 516 yd
Mill of KeigFarmhouse (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned) · 744 yd
Cothiemuir WoodRecumbent Stone Circle (neolithic) - (bronze Age) · 914 yd
Keig War MemorialMemorial · 933 yd
Black HillMountain / peak · 2.1 mi
Priests' WoodForest · 2.1 mi
MontgarrieNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 2.9 mi
Alford Valley RailwayMuseum · 3.1 mi
Grampian Transport MuseumMuseum · 3.2 mi
Balfluig CastleCastle (medieval) · 3.2 mi
Farquharson FountainMemorial · 3.2 mi