What is recorded here

Brodick Castle still casts a long shadow across Arran, but the field bank marks the exact edge where human ownership begins and wilderness reclaims the land. That thin line separates chamber pots and kitchen fires from clean rain and untamed grass. Everything written about the castle becomes measurement, invention or memory once it crosses into the wider island.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Arran, Brodick Castle, Field Bank as Field Boundary (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.

Brodick Castle on the Isle of Arran was originally built in the 13th century by the MacDougall clan and later held by the Campbell and then the Stewart families. It is important as a historic seat of power in the region and as an example of medieval and later Scottish castle architecture.

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