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Candyburn Castle
Fort (Prehistoric)
Site Name Candyburn Castle
Classification Fort (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 48927
Site Number NT04SE 19
NGR NT 0725 4075
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/48927
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Skirling
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT04SE 19 0725 4075.
(NT 0725 4075) Candyburn Castle (NR) Fort (NR)
OS 6" map (1912)
The fort that stood on the broad summit of Candyburn Hill has been almost entirely obliterated by cultivation. The ONB states that it was apparently surrounded by triple defences, and these are shown on the OS map enclosing a roughly circular area which measures about 200' in diameter.
RCAHMS 1967, visited 1958; Name Book 1856
NT 0725 4075: On the summit of Candyburn Hill are the remains of a fort measuring internally 70m NNE-SSW by 55m, between two ramparts, now exiating only as low scarps the outer rampart surviving in the NNE. No entrance is visible, but there is a break in the inner rampart in the NE. In the interior, several natural scoops are visible. The name, "Candyburn Castle" could not be confirmed.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 10 August 1971
Note (6 October 2015 - 17 August 2016)
This fort occupies the broad summit of Candyburn Hill, but it had already been ploughed down before David Christison visited about 1886. The depiction on the 1st edition OS 25-inch map (Peebles 1859, sheet 11.7) and the supporting description in the Name Book (Peeblesshire, no. 37, p 11), suggests the defences comprised three ramparts, the depiction showing them in a spiral with what was possibly the entrance on the NW, and this provided the basis for the account drawn up by RCAHMS investigators in 1958 (RCAHMS 1967, 106, no.266). In 1971, however, the OS revised the depiction and identified two ramparts reduced to scarps, enclosing an oval area measuring 70m from NNE to SSW by 55m transversely (0.28ha); they also identified a gap in the ramparts on the NE. While evidently representing elements of the earlier OS depiction, it is difficult to resolve the two, but it is possible that there was formerly a smaller enclosure within the interior.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 17 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3562
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
