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<< Our Photo Pages >> Bailiehill Fort - Hillfort in Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway

Submitted by markj99 on Wednesday, 05 May 2021  Page Views: 5429

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Bailiehill Fort
Country: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Langholm
Map Ref: NY2558090520
Latitude: 55.203307N  Longitude: 3.17084W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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markj99 visited on 19th May 2012 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Baliehill Fort is located between Lockerbie and Langholm in a rural setting. It is situated atop a steep climb up Camp Hill from a lay-by at NY 25315 90657. The remnants of the forts defenses are visible on the slope of the hill but the enclosures are relatively featureless.

Bailiehill Fort
Bailiehill Fort submitted by markj99 : Inside a defensive rampart and ditch defense of Bailiehill Fort. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Dumfries and Galloway. Canmore says: The sequence of construction of the defences is both complex and imperfectly understood, but the first recognisable phase appears to have comprised a roughly oval settlement formed by an enclosure measuring about 78m from NNE to SSW by 50m transversely within a rampart which has been reduced to a thick stony bank.

For more information about this multi-phase defended settlement see Canmore ID 67373

The second phase is represented by little more than a length of the ditch of a small summit enclosure that has otherwise been destroyed or masked by subsequent activity. The ditch lies to the W of the summit, some way down the steep rocky slope, and its outer lip appears to cut into the inner face of earlier rampart.

In the third phase, an oval enclosure, measuring about 78m from NNE to SSW by 43m internally was constructed, with an entrance on the ESE. For most of its length, this rampart follows the line taken by the first-phase enclosure and has probably reused an existing entrance gap, but on the W it climbs up onto the line of the crest of the summit, and overlies the second phase rampart. The successive defensive circuits on the summit fall within a larger enclosure, measuring about 143m from NNE to SSW by 114m within double banks and a medial ditch. Most of the E half of this enclosure has been destroyed by cultivation but the W half is well-preserved. Its place in the defensive sequence is unclear, but at two places on the W side, the inner bank departs from the line of the ditch and outer bank to butt on to, and thus overlie, the phase one rampart. Without excavation, however, it is impossible to determine whether this large enclosure represents an independent phase of defence or an element of one of the other fortifications.

Within the latest settlement, the stances of at least thirty-five timber round-houses can be identified; several are of ring-groove type and many have been built on platforms, but none can be assigned to any particular phase of enclosure. Several have been built across the line of the phase two defences and others have been cut into the inner face of the phase three bank. Later occupation or use of the hill is indicated by the presence of a sub-rectangular building platform, which has been built upon a round-house stance, and a small pen, the footings of which are visible towards the S side of the interior of the largest enclosure."

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Bailiehill Fort
Bailiehill Fort submitted by markj99 : The Outer Enclosure of Bailiehill Fort. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bailiehill Fort
Bailiehill Fort submitted by markj99 : Bailiehill fort is surrounded by multiple rampart and ditch defenses. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Eskdale Prehistoric Trail. by Andy B on Wednesday, 05 May 2021
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Next time you are in Dumfriesshire, try the Eskdale Prehistoric Trail. See About The Trail web page.
http://www.langholmwalks.co.uk/pht/information.html
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