What is recorded here

Castle Hill on Sanday is a twentieth-century mound, not an ancient castle, though the name still promises stone walls and forgotten kings. The mislabelled hill belongs to the living century, yet it wears the shape of legend because people keep calling it Castle Hill.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Sanday, Castle Hill as Mound (20th Century). 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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