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Preston Cleugh is a Iron Age fort located two kilometres north of Preston in Berwickshire, Scotland. The site is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM376. Constructed on bedrock of the Gala Group, a hard wacke formed during the Telychian period of the early Silurian, the fort was built to exploit naturally defensible terrain in this upland landscape.
Iron Age communities in Berwickshire constructed hillforts and defended settlements between roughly 800 BC and the Roman occupation. Preston Cleugh would have served as a centre for agriculture, craft production, and trade, whilst its fortifications—typically comprising stone or timber-faced ramparts—provided protection for the inhabitants and their livestock. The Gala Group wacke, a sedimentary stone naturally present at the site, could have been quarried for defensive walls.
Today Preston Cleugh remains an important archaeological witness to Iron Age settlement patterns in the Scottish Borders. Its survival depends upon continued scheduling protection and careful land management to prevent erosion and disturbance of the buried archaeological resource.
Preston Cleugh, fort 2000m N of Preston is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM376. View the official record →
Preston Cleugh is a Iron Age fort located two kilometres north of Preston in Berwickshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM376.
Preston Cleugh, fort 2000m N of Preston dates from the iron age period, and is classified as a fort 2000m n of preston. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Preston Cleugh, fort 2000m N of Preston 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 SM376.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bonkyl and Preston parish church, church 10m S of (1.3 km), Preston Market Cross, 35m ESE of 1 Preston Cottages (2.1 km), Preston Church, church and burial ground (2.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Preston Cleugh, fort 2000m N of Preston'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.
Preston Cleugh, fort 2000m N of Preston stands on Gala Group, bedrock that formed in the Telychian. The rock here is wacke.