What is recorded here
Drum Castle Policies, Cowie Hill holds a possible clay pit and pond, marked on the official map with one metre of certainty. The land may have given up its red depth to make bricks or tiles, while water collected in the hollow left behind. People may have pulled clay from the hill or watched rain fill the depression, but no date or name survives to confirm that life.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Drum Castle Policies, Cowie Hill as Clay Pit (period Unassigned)(possible), Pond (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.
The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.
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