What is recorded here
Merchiston Castle School Playing Fields hold a possible post Medieval field drain beneath grass now trod by children. Rain may still follow that hidden line, feeding ditches or disappearing into clay long after the people who cut it forgot its name. The fields give up no warning, only life sustained through wet seasons.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, Merchiston Castle School Playing Fields as Field Drain (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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