What is recorded here

Castlelaw and Dreghorn Training Area is a military firing range and training site in Edinburgh that has subjected ancient settlement remains to decades of controlled violence. The land holds ring-ditch houses, palisaded enclosures, a fort and a souterrain beside relict military features, meaning bullets have passed through places where people lived before records existed. The range wards both modern doctrine and buried life, forcing every shot to land inside a much older human story.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castlelaw and Dreghorn Training Area as Firing Range (20th Century), Firing Range (first World War), Military Training Site (20th Century), Military Training Site (first World War). 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.

Castlelaw and Dreghorn Training Area was used by the British military as a firing range and training site from the First World War into the 20th century. It is remembered as an important site for military preparedness and training in Scotland during major conflicts.

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