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Kemp's Castle, Euchan Water

Earthwork (period Unassigned)

What is recorded here

Kemp's Castle, Euchan Water is an unassigned earthwork in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, where a ridge of soil may have marked a boundary, a watch post or a forgotten home. The land keeps no date, only shape, yet that shape still interrupts the water and air around it. Whatever it was, it required enough effort to build and enough trust to leave behind.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Kemp's Castle, Euchan Water as Earthwork (period Unassigned). 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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