What is recorded here
Castlehill Pavement Works, Pond sits in Highland, Scotland, where pavement making once disturbed the quiet land. The water may have cooled hot tools or washed clean the hands of men who built roads through hill country. Its exact age remains unknown, but the pond itself still marks the place where human labour met the native landscape.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castlehill Pavement Works, Pond as Pond (period Unassigned), Works (period Unassigned). 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.
The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.
Places near here
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Easter HeadHeadland · 5.1 mi
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