What is recorded here

Kilsyth Castle is a Roman altar in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, not a castle at all. The name is a mistake repeated until it became a identity. A altar is a meeting place between people and forces larger than them. The castle part is the human imagination refusing to leave the altar alone.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Kilsyth Castle as Altar (roman). 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.

Kilsyth Castle is a Roman altar recorded in Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment, dating to the Roman occupation of Britain, roughly between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD. It is important as a rare remnant of Roman religious or military activity in the central Lowlands of Scotland.

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