What is recorded here
Clintwood Castle in the Scottish Borders holds a Bronze Age enclosure where a sword and socketed axehead still emerge from the earth. The land may have served ritual, battle or ordinary survival, yet human hands shaped every marker now buried beneath grass and time.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Clintwood Castle as Enclosure (bronze Age), Hoard (period Unassigned)(possible), Socketed Axehead (bronze)(period Unassigned), Sword (bronze)(period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. 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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