What is recorded here

Drum Castle Policies marks a continuous entrance plantation where medieval rig and furrow patterns still break through later growth. The land has kept its shape through centuries of human use, suggesting that people worked this soil repeatedly rather than abandoning it after one season. That persistence turns an ordinary field edge into a living archive of patience, where every visible line records another generation choosing to return.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Drum Castle Policies, Entrance Plantation as Rig and Furrow (medieval) - (post Medieval). 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.

Drum Castle Policies, Entrance Plantation is associated with the medieval Drum Castle, which was built in the late 14th or early 15th century by the Drummond family, a prominent Scottish noble lineage. The site is historically important as it reflects the agricultural and estate management practices of a powerful family in the region during the medieval and post-medieval periods.

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