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Linglie Fort is an Iron Age fortification located in Selkirkshire, in the Scottish Borders. The fort sits on bedrock of the Hawick Group, a Wenlock-age wacke formation that would have provided the local builders with readily available stone for construction. The site is protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2234.
Iron Age forts of this type, constructed during the period from around 800 BC to the Roman arrival in Scotland, typically served as defended settlements or places of refuge for local communities. Their defensive character—often marked by ramparts, ditches or timber palisades—reflects the competitive and sometimes volatile social landscape of Iron Age Britain.
Linglie Fort's position within Selkirkshire places it within a region rich in prehistoric settlement evidence. The wacke bedrock underlying the site, being relatively hard and fracture-prone, would have allowed Iron Age communities to construct substantial stone fortifications, though timber was likely also employed in the fort's defences. The fort remains an important archaeological record of settlement patterns during the Iron Age in the eastern Scottish Borders.
Linglie,fort is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2234. View the official record →
Linglie Fort is an Iron Age fortification located in Selkirkshire, in the Scottish Borders. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2234.
Linglie,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.
Linglie,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 SM2234.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Brownmoor Glen,fort (3.8 km), New Greenhill,fort (4.3 km), Middlestead,earthwork (4.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Linglie,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.
Linglie,fort stands on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.