What is recorded here

Castlehill in Inverness has been destroyed and rebuilt so often that memory itself becomes a fortress. David I, Malcolm Canmore, Mary, Queen of Scots, the Royalists and Prince Charles Edward all left their marks there, while a possible Iron Age broch and Viking inhumation suggest the hill was contested long before castle stones appeared. The county buildings now sit above the old site, but the restored well still opens into the basement like a forgotten throat, waiting for someone to drop a coin into centuries.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castlehill as Broch (iron Age)(possible), Inhumation (viking). 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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