What is recorded here
Portmahomack, Castle Street, Smithy stands as a recorded smithy in Highland, Scotland, though no period is assigned. The exact location is known to the nearest metre, yet the absence of a date leaves the hammer strikes and molten glare suspended in time. A blacksmith may have worked there beneath the Highland sky, shaping tools for neighbours or travelers, while the street watched and the metal cooled. The place resists easy dating but preserves the possibility that ordinary craft once animated it.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Portmahomack, Castle Street, Smithy as Smithy (period Unassigned). 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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Places near here
Portmahomack Harbour Street FountainMemorial · 37 yd
Portmahomack, Houses Near HarbourHouse(s) (period Unassigned) · 70 yd
Portmahomack, Harbour StreetNo Class (event) (21st Century) · 75 yd
Portmahomack, Well Street, Tarbat Parish ChurchChurch (20th Century) · 93 yd
Portmahomack, Main StreetNo Class (event) (21st Century) · 332 yd
TarbatCross Slab (pictish), Pictish Symbol Stone (pictish) · 577 yd
Tarbat Discovery CentreMuseum · 578 ydTarbat Parish ChurchGravestone (early Medieval) · 581 yd
Baptism WellSpring · 663 yd
Tarbat War MemorialMemorial · 682 yd
Rockfield Farm, Little Tarrel CastleTower House (medieval) · 1.6 mi
Tarrel CaveCave (period Unassigned) · 2.7 mi