What is recorded here

Strathmartine Castle vanished before Captain David Laird built his colonial farmhouse there around 1785, leaving only a cropmark and perhaps prehistoric passages beneath the soil. John Ochterlony called the lost castle a good house in 1684, but no wall, chamber or chambered door remains for anyone to touch. Laird may have stood in fields already marked by older hands, building bows and gatepiers above secrets the earth still keeps.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Strathmartine Castle as Cropmark(s) (period Unknown), Man-made underground passage(s) (prehistoric). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Strathmartine Castle was a medieval stronghold associated with the Leslie family, prominent in Scottish history, and was likely held by them from the 13th century onwards. It is remembered for its strategic significance in the region and its connection to the Earls of Leven and Melville.

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