What earns a place
A place is included when it helps answer a real question: is this ancient place worth a day out, what can be seen now, how should it be approached, and what is honestly unknown? If a record only proves that a site exists, it stays in the working database rather than becoming a public page.
Sources and confidence
Identity, dates and location are drawn from authoritative records — Canmore and Trove, Historic Environment Scotland designations, Wikidata, Wikipedia and Ordnance Survey context. We note how many independent source families stand behind a page and treat low-confidence material quietly rather than inflating certainty. Folklore, ritual meaning, alignment and other contested claims are recorded as what is said, with their status labelled.
Sensitive places
Some places are fragile, sacred, private or conservation-sensitive. For these we show the general area only — never exact coordinates, parking or independent route instructions in the page, its data, or the sitemap — and we point to official custodians and guided access. Where an authoritative source deliberately obscures a location, we do not reconstruct it.
Images
Imagery is used only where it is rights-clean — licensed from Wikimedia Commons, Geograph or Historic Environment Scotland, with the creator, licence and source credited on the page. We never generate or edit fake photography of a real place.
What is still growing
Many pages currently carry verified facts, location and sources while their fuller history is still being written. These early entries are marked as in preparation and are not yet part of the public search footprint; their depth and sourcing are added before they are opened to search.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, or a place is shown in a way that risks harm to the site, we want to know. A correction and contact path is part of the launch; until then, errors are reviewed and fixed as they are found.