What is recorded here
Castlehill rises in South Lanarkshire as a motte and ditches, its earthworks still marking the place where human hands shaped land into defence. The mound may have been built to watch roads, hide people, or simply claim visibility above surrounding fields. Whatever it guarded, the ditches remain as a boundary between ordinary ground and remembered purpose.
Castlehill (Motte & ditches) is shown as a castle on the public map of South Lanarkshire. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
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Places near here
National Museum of Rural LifeMuseum · 280 yd
Wester KittochsideMuseum (19th Century) - (20th Century) · 286 yd
Wester Kittochside FarmDrain (period Unassigned), Bead(s) (period Unassigned), Bottle(s) (glass)(period Unassigned), Button(s) (period Unassigned), Pipe (smoking) (period Unassigned), Unidentified Flint (period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery(s) (19th Century) · 640 yd
KittochsideBurial Cairn (bronze Age), Cinerary Urn (bronze Age) · 659 yd
CastlehillFarmhouse (period Unassigned) · 663 yd
Philipshill, Westerfield Road, CemeteryCemetery (20th Century) · 818 yd
Highflat FarmNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 1.1 mi
East Kilbride, Mains CastleMotte (medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval) · 1.3 mi
Peel Road, ThorntonhallNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 1.3 mi
Woodland by the Carmunnock BypassForest or wood · 1.4 mi
War MemorialMemorial · 1.4 mi.jpg?width=1280)
Cathkin Marsh Wildlife ReserveNature reserve · 1.4 mi