What is recorded here

Inverness, Castle Street holds a shell midden, an unassigned pile where people dumped kitchen waste and shaped the street with repeated choice. The shells may have come from coastal kitchens or travelling traders, but the act of gathering them into one place suggests hunger, feast, or both. A city built above discarded food inherits that paradox: progress often feeds on what others refuse to remember.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Inverness, Castle Street as Shell Midden (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.

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