What is recorded here

A smooth white stone axehead lies buried in Castleton, its edge worn by hands that shaped wood before written history. It is not a display cabinet or a museum glass case; it is a field mark, waiting for someone strong enough to lift it and steady enough to remember what it cut. The absence of a date does not diminish the tool. It removes the excuse for forgetting that people made everything they could afford to lose.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castleton as Polished Axehead (stone)(period Unassigned). 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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