What is recorded here
Kitchen Bog holds clearance cairns beside Drum Castle Policies, marking lives displaced when the estate changed hands. The stones stand in wet ground where memory and mud mix, waiting for someone to read their shape.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Drum Castle Policies, Kitchen Bog as Clearance Cairn(s) (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.
The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.
Places near here
Drum Castle, Home FarmFarmhouse (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned) · 187 yd
Drum Castle, ChapelChapel (15th Century) · 238 yd
Drumhill WoodForest · 350 yd
Drum Castle, Walled GardenBothy (period Unassigned), Structure (period Unassigned), Walled Garden (period Unassigned) · 609 yd_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2102202.jpg?width=1280)
Drum Castle Rose GardenHeritage attraction · 616 yd
DrumoakSocketed Axehead (bronze)(period Unassigned) · 1607 yd
WoodsideCairnfield (later Prehistoric), Enclosure (post Medieval), Field Boundary(s) (later Prehistoric), Hut Circle(s) (prehistoric) · 1.0 mi
Coldstream PlantationForest · 1.1 mi
Castle Hill, DurrisMotte (medieval) · 2.4 mi
Castle Hill, MotteArchaeological place · 2.4 mi
NormandykesNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 2.5 mi
Peterculter Golf CourseNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 2.7 mi