Castle Crawford Farm Fort is a Prehistoric Hill Fort Situated on Castle Hill near Crawford in South Lanarkshire on the banks of the river Clyde . It is one of three such forts situated on the same hill. It can be acessed via the aptly named camps road off the A702 as you leave Crawford
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KIrkton Fort is a small oval shaped Prehistoric Hill Fort Situated on Castle hill near Crawford in South Lanarkshire on the banks of the river Clyde . It is one of three such forts situated on the same hill. It can be seen From the A702 and the M74 or close up from the aptly named Camps Road.
Kirkton Fort and settlement. Taken from the A702
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Grennan Hill Fort. You can just make out the rampart. One of the hardest ones to find yet.
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A summit of South Lanarkshire, Arbory Hill rises to 429m (1407 feet) a mile (1.5 km) east northeast of Abington. The remains of a well-preserved Iron Age hill-fort crowns the hill, comprising a walled enclosure and huts circles surrounded by a double rampart. The village of Abington, River Clyde, the A74(M) motorway and main-line railway are all squeezed into the narrow valley to the west
Bodsberry Hill was an unenclosed plateau settlement believed to have been constructed in the Bronze Age between 2000 and 1500 bc. It is located next to the m74 About a mile south from junction 14 and can be told apart from surrounding hills by the fact there are no trees on the top of it.
Devonshaw Hill fort is on a rocky knoll at the end of the steep-sided spur that projects SW from Devonshaw Hill, about 430m NE of Woodend farmhouse, is occupied by the remains of a fort and enclosure. . The site is located about 1 mile from Abington Service station at junction 13 of the m74, on the A702 Edinburgh Road and can be seen from some distance.
Arbory Hillfort taken from looking to the SE from bridge over the m74 at junction 13
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Tynron Doon Hillfort. You can just make out the ramparts and ditches at the top of the hill.
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Dunmore is a prehistoric fort on a prominent hill overlooking Callander. It is defended by the remains of four walls on all sides except the east where steep slopes provided sufficient defence. An enclosure below the fort on the north may be contemporary.
Dunmore is the most impressive of a number of forts in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs area. Most of them were probably constructed not simply for defence and security, but also to display the power and status of their builder
This oval fort is situated at about 500 ft OD on the summit of a rocky hillock; it measures 152 ft NNW-SSE by 62 ft transversely. It is defended by a partly rock-cut ditch, 35 ft broad and 16 ft in maximum depth, starting at the brow of the steep slope on the W, passing round the E side to end on the cliffs in the S. Soil from the ditch forms a rampart above the counterscarp, while a parapet mound crowns the scarp in the N.
A well-defined approach enters into a slight hollow at the lowest point of the interior. An ill-defined outwork flanks the S side of the approach. In the interior are three slightly hollowed circular areas which may be hut sites.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1913; R W Feachem 1956
The Devil’s Punchbowl taken from Segsbury Fort on the Ridgeway
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Tynron Doon Hillfort. You can see the ramparts of the fort on the right of the picture
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Coombe gibbet Long Barrow with a Gibbet (not the original) on top. In the distance following the path is the entrance to Walbury Hillfort
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Some Nice aerial pictures of the doon here
This site, on the summit of Tynron Doon, is basically a multivallate Iron Age fort with an Early Medieval (Dark Age) and Medieval occupation. The final phases include a (?) 16th century tower-house and an 18th-19th century shepherd’s bothy.
The Iron Age structures must follow much the same basic plan as the present modified structure ie a central plot defended on the N,E and S by steep natural slopes. The W and NW approaches were defended by two main ramparts and three ditches; several of the ditches are rock-cut. Below the summit on the NE slopes there are prominent remains of a terrace cut into the slope; the terrace is defended by a small rampart but its use is unknown.
No details of the Dark Age occupation are available but presumably the Iron Age fort was merely utilised with few or no major changes. The occupation waste from this period lies below the large nettle patch on the SW slopes.
There is no positive evidence regarding structure changes on the site during the medieval period. It has been suggested that the hill-top might have been modified as a motte and the ditches re-cut some time around the late 12th or early 13th century in order to correspond with general practice elsewhere in the area.
The late medieval period is represented by the base plan of an L-shaped tower-house of (?) 16th century date, at the NW corner of the central plot. The remaining wall plan measures approximately 20 x 42 ft with an extension at the NW corner, 8 x 10 ft, which very probably represents the wheel-stair of the tower.
The structure was demolished some time around 1700-50. There are indications that the hill-top at this period was enclosed within a barmkin wall with a gateway at the SW corner of the tower.
Occupation during the 18th-19th century appears to be represented by a hut circle in the SE corner of the plot; this is very probably the remains of the shepherd’s bothy built when the tower was removed to build Tynron Kirk.
Artifacts found either in 1924, or when sections were cut in 1964-7, are in Dumfries Museum. They include fragments of a bracteate pendant, dating to the late 7th-8th century; blue glass beads, fragments of bloomery waste, and vitrification. (Finds are fully listed and described by J Williams 1971).
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1912; L Laing 1975; W Wilson 1957
From the Royal Commission on the ancient and historical monuments of Scotland Database
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