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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Castle Hill (Ancrum)Country: Scotland County: Scottish Borders Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Jedburgh Nearest Village: Ancrum
Map Ref: NT6239424909
Latitude: 55.516478N Longitude: 2.5971W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Anne T saw from a distance on 20th Sep 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Castle Hill Hillfort, Ancrum, Scottish Borders: It was getting late in the evening, with dusk coming on, so sadly there wasn’t time to drive back into Ancrum and back round the other side to clamber up to this enticing hill fort, which is visible from Ancrum Old Church and can also be clearly seen on UK Grid Reference Finder. We did try walking across the pack horse bridge across Ale Water, letting ourselves out of the wrought iron gates at the eastern side, but the cottage and adjacent barns we’d have needed to walk through were a building site and were cordoned off.
Decided to leave this for another day, and drove back past the market cross to photograph that before heading off to Armadale.
This hillfort can be seen from Ancrum Old Church, rising high above the eastern side of the churchyard, with a loop of Ale Water protecting its western side.
Recorded as Canmore ID 57086, it is described as a 'Dark Age Fort' which occupies the whole of the flat-topped western end of a narrow ridge. The hillfort "comprises three contiguous enclosures, lying roughly E and W; the westernmost enclosure (A) is oval on plan while the other two (B and C) are subrectangular. Enclosure A measures 200ft from E to W by 165ft from N to S within a boulder-faced rubble wall which, except on the E side, is from 7ft 6in to 10ft thick. Many of the foundation-stones of this wall are still in situ, including a number of massive grounders up to 4ft 6in long such as are found loose on the surface of the ridge or may be easily quarried from the outcrops on the adjacent knoll."
At the time of our visit, the path to the steeper, western side of the hillfort from the church (over the old bridge) was closed due to building works. From Ancrum village, a small road and footpath gives access onto the gentler, eastern flank of the hill.
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