For millennia, this rock promontory has been one of the best protected places in Bohemia and it is thus surprising that no traces of prehistoric settlement were found here, but only Slavonic ceramics from the Burgwall times. But, on the other hand, one of the oldest Bohemian castles protecting from the middle of the 12th century the Cheb region, then newly annexed to the Kingdom of Bohemia, was built just here. One hundred years later, sometimes after 1234, the Late Romanesque Loket Castle became, instead of the Sedlec Burgwall, the centre of Slavonic settlement in the northwestern Bohemia…