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Bogle Walls is a univallate Iron Age fort located in Dumfriesshire, south-west Scotland. The site occupies a naturally defensible position on bedrock of the Hawick Group, a formation of wacke that dates to the Wenlock period. This hard, fine-grained sedimentary stone provided a stable foundation for the fort's construction and would have offered resistance to erosion of its defensive earthworks.
The fort comprises a single substantial rampart enclosing its interior, a design typical of Iron Age hillforts across southern Scotland. The wacke bedrock underlying the site would have presented both challenges and advantages to its builders: while quarrying stone for construction and fortification would have been labour-intensive, the resulting materials were durable and suitable for foundation work.
Bogle Walls is protected as a scheduled monument under Historic Environment Scotland's reference SM646, recognising its archaeological significance as a surviving example of Iron Age settlement and defence in the region. The fort remains an important record of prehistoric land use and territorial organisation in Dumfriesshire during the Iron Age period.
Bogle Walls, fort is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM646. View the official record →
Bogle Walls is a univallate Iron Age fort located in Dumfriesshire, south-west Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM646.
Bogle Walls, fort dates from the iron age period, and is classified as a fort. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Bogle Walls, fort is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM646.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Callisterhall,cairn 2550m NNE of (7.2 km), Gibb's Hill, unenclosed settlement,palisaded settlements & houses (7.3 km), Greencleuch Cottage, settlement 1550m NNW of (7.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Bogle Walls, fort's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bogle Walls, fort stands on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.