Brodie Castle and Estate Historic Landscape Survey

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Date September 2013 - April 2014

Event ID 1008412

Category Project

Type Nts Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1008412

The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) commissioned Peter McGowan Associates in August 2013 to undertake an historical landscape survey of Brodie castle and estate and to investigate the development of its archaeological and designed landscape by surveys and research to provide information for the future management of the landscape and its gardens, policies and woodland.

The primary tasks of the survey and research work comprised a site

familiarisation or ‘walk-over’ survey, undertaken jointly by the landscape

architect and archaeologist, followed by detailed research and site survey tasks. These included landscape assessment, a topographic survey of the core of the landscape and a re-survey of the significant trees by plotting and scheduling. Site surveys were undertaken in the period September 2013 to April 2014.

Information from NTS (SCS) February 2016

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Event	Type	Subtype	Notes	Date
1008541	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	Lawns of close-mown grass extend 50-80m beyond the forecourt on both sides as far as tree cover or woodland edge. Although fairly flat some minor undulations relate to former features on the historical maps and features identified in the geophysical survey (see 3.2). The only notable tree is this zone is the mature purple beech (that blocks the south-west vista to the castle). [...]	September 2013
1008544	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	Despite Brodie being located in one of the mostly northerly districts of Britain, the development of the landscape responded to advances in land management and changes in the fashionable styles for improving estates. Successive lairds travelled widely in the UK and abroad, visiting cultural sites and the houses, parks and gardens of the wealthy and were members of organisations concerned with estate improvement, horticulture and the arts. These interests are reflected in the Brodie landscape and have to an extent been recorded in archives and publications. [...]	September 2013
1008561	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	Geophysical evidence within Dovecote Park, geophysics report feature (3). [...]	September 2013

Brodie Castle and Estate Historic Landscape Survey

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