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Longcroft is a fort of Iron Age date located in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders. The monument stands approximately 500 metres north-east of Longcroft and is situated on wacke bedrock of the Gala Group, formed during the Telychian period. This underlying geology—hard, metamorphosed sedimentary rock—provided the Iron Age builders with defensible high ground across the rolling landscape of the Borders. The site is protected as a Scheduled Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM372.
Iron Age forts in the Borders region typically comprise one or more defensive banks and ditches enclosing an area for settlement and stock management. Constructed between roughly 800 and 100 BC, such sites served as strongholds for local communities during a period of increasing social complexity and territorial consolidation. Their positioning on elevated terrain afforded both surveillance of surrounding lands and defensive advantage against both livestock raiders and rival groups.
The Berwickshire landscape in which Longcroft stands is rich in Iron Age settlement evidence. The wacke bedrock that underlies the fort would have weathered to provide workable stone for construction and tools, whilst the surrounding upland terrain supported pastoral agriculture. Today, the fort remains a significant archaeological witness to the Iron Age societies that occupied the Scottish Borders in the first centuries before Roman contact.
Longcroft,fort 500m NE of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM372. View the official record →
Longcroft is a fort of Iron Age date located in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM372.
Longcroft,fort 500m NE of 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.
Longcroft,fort 500m NE of 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 SM372.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Fort and settlement, Blackchester (4.6 km), Bowerhouse,fort 480m NW of (5.4 km), Hare Faulds, fort 2000m NNW of Dod Mill (6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Longcroft,fort 500m NE of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Longcroft,fort 500m NE of stands on Gala Group, bedrock that formed in the Telychian. The rock here is wacke.