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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Bailiehill FortCountry: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Langholm
Map Ref: NY2558090520
Latitude: 55.203307N Longitude: 3.17084W
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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 |
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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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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.
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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