What is recorded here

Edinburgh Castle Esplanade, Scottish Horse Memorial stands as a twentieth-century war memorial from 1905, marking the esplanade where human and animal sacrifice met during global conflict. The stones remember horses whose muscle and breath sustained armies long before engines took over. People may have ridden past them, patted their necks, or watched them fall silent in foreign fields. The memorial exists because forgetting those animals would be a cruelty no amount of human glory can justify.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh Castle Esplanade, Scottish Horse Memorial as Commemorative Monument (20th Century) (1905), War Memorial (20th Century) (1905). 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.

The Scottish Horse Memorial on Edinburgh Castle Esplanade was erected in 1905 to commemorate the regiment's service, particularly during the Second Boer War. It is an important local and military memorial, honoring the Scottish Horse regiment's contributions to British military history.

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