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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Bogle Walls Alternative Name: Enzieholm; Enzieholm (Bogle Walls)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 4.1 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Eskdalemuir Nearest Village: Westerkirk / Bentpath
Map Ref: NY29249124
Latitude: 55.210314N Longitude: 3.113527W
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3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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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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Anne T visited on 6th Apr 2015 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Bogle Walls Earthwork/Fort, Eskdalemuir: We spotted this earthwork as we drove back to Bentpath and Langholm on the way back from Bessie's Hill and stopped to take a closer look and take a few photographs. Sitting at the foot of Enzieholm Hill to its 'back' and a bend of the River Esk to its 'front' it is an emminently defensible position. Would have liked to take a closer look and walk up to the top of the bank but daylight was fading and we'd seen a lot of other sights that day and my brain was a little tired and overloaded by this stage! Next time - which I hope won't be too long.
Well-preserved defensive earthworks with V-shaped ditch and grass-covered bank. It used to be interpreted as a medieval feature, but the new reports point out it's similarities with prehistoric settlements in Scottish Borders - possibly it is an Iron Age fort re-used in medieval period.
For more information, see Canmore ID 67310 which describe this strongly-built settlement/fort as a "V-shaped ditch, 42' wide and up to 12' deep, with an inner rampart 7'-8' high and a slight mound on the counterscarp cuts off a triangular promontory 120' x 144', the other two sides having the natural defences of the steep slope to the bank of the Esk on the N, and to a glen on the W. Entrance was past the W end of the rampart. Along the NE side where the rampart has apparently returned for some 40', there is evidence of a 5' thick stone wall and there are further indications of walling above the glen. Two depressions on the point probably mark hut sites."
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