
What is recorded here
Culzean Castle Policies, Swan Pond Cottage preserves possible medieval rig and furrow marks, revealing how much older the land's memory is than any castle claim. The earth still carries the shape of repeated labour, suggesting people lived and adapted long before stone walls rose. The cottage name implies someone tended swans or simply watched them circle the water, turning a farm into a small myth.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Culzean Castle Policies, Swan Pond Cottage as Rig and Furrow (medieval) - (post Medieval)(possible). 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.
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Places near here
Culzean Country ParkNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 70 yd
Culzean Castle, Swan Pond CottageCottage (period Unassigned) · 73 yd
Culzean Castle, AviaryAviary (period Unassigned) · 77 yd
Port CarrickLanding Point (period Unassigned)(possible) · 631 yd
ArdlochanBreakwater (period Unassigned)(possible) · 655 yd
The Powder HouseVisitor information · 700 yd
Culzean Castle, Walled Garden, Gardener's CottageGardeners Lodge (period Unassigned) · 873 yd
Culzean Castle, Walled GardenGarden Terrace (period Unassigned) · 902 yd
The Mast HouseVisitor information · 1085 yd
Knockaniddling WoodWood · 1673 yd
Thomaston CastleCastle (16th Century) · 1740 yd
Maidens BreakwaterCraft (20th Century) · 1.1 miOther information
Photo: Mary and Angus Hogg · CC BY-SA 2.0