What is recorded here

Udny Castle, Home Farm, Gravel Pit appears in the national record as unnamed sand and gravel workings, stripping away the castle and farm to reveal the brutal fact that people dug through the ground there. The distinction matters because a castle can be admired from a distance while a gravel pit demands entry, labour and transformation. Whatever lived beside those works must have smelled of wet stone, heard the crash of breaking earth and watched the land change shape under human hands.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Udny Castle, Home Farm, Gravel Pit as Sand and Gravel Workings (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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