What is recorded here
Castle Knowe at Leuchars still throws a shadow in the soil, though no stone stands above it. The earth remembers a boundary or building that people forgot, drawing a line through ordinary ground. That much is visible; the rest belongs to imagination.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Leuchars, Castle Knowe as Cropmark(s) (period Unknown), Enclosure (period Unassigned)(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
Leuchars, Main Street, Free ChurchChurch (19th Century) · 335 yd
Leuchars CastleEnclosure (period Unassigned)(possible), Rig and Furrow (medieval) - (post Medieval) · 455 yd
Leuchars, Pitlethie Road, Leuchars Primary SchoolSchool (20th Century) · 496 yd
Leuchars, Schoolhill, St Athernase Parish ChurchBurial Ground (medieval), Church (12th Century), Churchyard (medieval) · 502 yd
Leuchars, Leuchars CemeteryCemetery (20th Century) · 699 yd
RAF Leuchars MemorialMemorial · 825 yd
EarlshallNo Class (event) (21st Century) · 1089 yd
St Michael's WoodForest · 1415 yd
Earlshall CastleCastle · 1459 yd
Reres WoodWood · 2.0 mi
Straiton HillMountain / peak · 2.1 mi
Balmullo QuarryNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 2.2 mi