What is recorded here

Palace Hill is a prehistoric pit alignment in the Scottish Borders, marked on the national record with a point accurate to one metre. The exact purpose of those pits has faded, but the precision of their placement suggests people cared whether the marks aligned under a particular sky or followed a boundary no longer visible. The hill may have watched herds, marked territory, or simply amused itself with geometry before writing invented the word for memory.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Palace Hill as Pit Alignment (prehistoric). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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