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Clerklands fort is an Iron Age fort located in Roxburghshire, south-east Scotland. The monument is protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2223. The fort is situated on bedrock of the Hawick Group, a formation of wacke stone created during the Wenlock period, which provides a naturally strong foundation characteristic of this upland region of the Scottish Borders.
Iron Age hillforts of this type typically date from around 1000 BCE to the Roman period, serving as defensive settlements or gathering places for local communities. The Hawick Group geology beneath Clerklands would have offered both practical advantages for construction and natural defensibility. The wacke bedrock of this area supported settlement throughout prehistory and into the early historic period.
Clerklands exemplifies the fort-building tradition of the Iron Age in south-east Scotland, occupying terrain that would remain strategically significant throughout subsequent centuries. The protection of the site recognises its importance to understanding Iron Age settlement patterns in the borderlands between modern Scotland and England.
Clerklands,fort is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2223. View the official record →
Clerklands fort is an Iron Age fort located in Roxburghshire, south-east Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2223.
Clerklands,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.
Clerklands,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 SM2223.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including North Synton,fort (1.7 km), Riddell, motte and bailey 600m NE of (2.2 km), New Greenhill,fort (2.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Clerklands,fort's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Clerklands,fort stands on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.