What is recorded here
Castle Hill in Forfar, Angus holds a buried bronze hoard: flat and socketed axeheads alongside a spearhead. The metals waited beneath soil while people came and went, perhaps discarded in ritual or lost in haste. That much is recorded. The rest belongs to imagination, not fact.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Forfar, Castle Hill as Flat Axehead (bronze)(period Unassigned), Hoard (period Unassigned), Socketed Axehead(s) (bronze)(period Unassigned), Spearhead (bronze)(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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Places near here
Forfar, Castle HillCastle (medieval) · 21 yd
Myre RoadSherd(s) (pottery)(period Unassigned) · 88 yd
ForfarLogboat (period Unassigned) · 109 yd
Forfar, Castle Street, K6 Telephone KiosksTelephone Box (20th Century) · 140 yd
Forfar, Castle Street, Municipal BuildingsMunicipal Building(s) (19th Century) · 150 yd
Meffan Institute Museum & GalleryMuseum · 216 yd
Forfar, Green StreetNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 272 yd
Carseburn Road, ForfarNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 395 yd
Forfar, Monument to Sir Robert Peel, Forfar CemeteryCommemorative Monument (19th Century) · 669 yd
Peter Reid StatueMemorial · 884 yd
Balmashanner HillViewpoint · 1532 yd
St Margaret's InchHeadland · 1620 yd