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Campknowe Plantation, fort and enclosure is an Iron Age fort situated in Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders. The site occupies ground underlain by wacke bedrock of the Hawick Group, formed during the Wenlock period. The monument is protected by Historic Environment Scotland under scheduled monument reference SM2140.
The fort comprises defensive earthworks typical of Iron Age settlement in the Border region, where hillforts and enclosed settlements were established to command the landscape and protect communities and their resources. The surrounding plantation woodland now obscures the site's wider topographical context, though the underlying geology of resistant wacke would have influenced both the location's suitability for settlement and the character of its construction.
As a scheduled monument, Campknowe Plantation fort and enclosure is recognised as a structure of national importance, preserving archaeological evidence of Iron Age occupation and defensive strategies in the Borders. The site contributes to understanding of settlement patterns and territorial organisation among Iron Age communities in this region during the later prehistoric period.
Campknowe Plantation,fort & enclosure is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2140. View the official record →
Campknowe Plantation, fort and enclosure is an Iron Age fort situated in Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2140.
Campknowe Plantation,fort & enclosure dates from the iron age period, and is classified as a fort & enclosure. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Campknowe Plantation,fort & enclosure 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 SM2140.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Leap Linn,earthwork (4.3 km), Leap Hill,earthwork (4.7 km), Pisgah Saucer Barrows or Whitefield Cairns (5.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Campknowe Plantation,fort & enclosure's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Campknowe Plantation,fort & enclosure stands on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.