What is recorded here
Cowie Hill holds a clearance cairn inside Drum Castle Policies, a small stone marker left behind when people stopped living there. The hill may have watched families leave, fields empty, and castle shadows fade across Aberdeenshire. What is certain is that the cairn still stands, remembering the clearance without naming the year or the hands that built it.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Drum Castle Policies, Cowie Hill as Clearance Cairn (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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Places near here
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