What is recorded here
Castlesteads Park holds prehistoric pits and a pit alignment in East Lothian, Scotland. The marks are old enough to belong before written memory, yet clear enough to suggest people stood there, measured distance or repeated a ritual across open ground. The park may have been a boundary, a gathering place or a warning written into soil.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castlesteads Park as Pit(s) (prehistoric), 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.
The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.
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