2021

NT1966 : Clubbiedean Hillfort Earthworks

taken 3 years ago, near to Currie, Edinburgh, Scotland

Clubbiedean Hillfort Earthworks
Clubbiedean Hillfort Earthworks
This is a scheduled monument and those in the know seem to agree that it is the remains of an Iron Age, or late prehistoric (as the Iron Age sometimes gets called) hillfort. It is fairly unusual for being quite so visible at ground level - a lot of these old sites marked on maps are very hard to distinguish from their surroundings when you get there. Drones are the best way to see them properly I have been told.
The official Historic Scotland write-up is very poorly written and the depiction on the map is a bit confusing (to me anyway, maybe I don't quite get the triangles they use!), but after reading a few descriptions from various sources it seems that there was an inner and outer wall originally, which can plainly he seen here. The picture was taken from the small wood on the South side of Clubbiedean Reservoir - the map shows banks and ditches inside the wood but my untrained eye didn't spot anything obvious.
The Iron Age was quite long, from 800BC to 43AD, when the Romans took over. But not as long, strangely, as the mediaeval period, which went from about 400 to 1450.

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Geographical Context: Historic sites and artefacts Farm, Fishery, Market Gardening Defence, Military Primary Subject: Hill Fort other tags: Scheduled Monument Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
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Ian Dodds   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 21 August, 2021   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 22 August, 2021
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NT 1999 6668 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:53.1953N 3:16.8423W
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OSGB36: geotagged! NT 1999 6668
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West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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