
What is recorded here
Castlelaw Hill holds a post-medieval enclosure and a possible hut above the busy training grounds, where military noise still chokes the valley below. The hill may have given people a small, defensible place to live before guns and vehicles took the land for themselves. Even if no name survives for those first inhabitants, the earth keeps their shape, waiting for someone to walk it quietly and imagine the hands that built it.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castlelaw Hill as Enclosure (post Medieval), Hut (post Medieval)(possible). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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Places near here
Castlelaw HillMarker Cairn (20th Century) · 460 yd
WoodhouseleeField Boundary(s) (post Medieval), Rig and Furrow (medieval) - (post Medieval) · 490 yd
Capelaw HillSheepfold (period Unassigned) · 946 yd
West side of Allermuir HillMountain or hill · 1034 yd
Allermuir Hill toposcopeMountain or hill · 1131 yd
Fraser Tytler MemorialMemorial · 1276 yd
Edinburgh, Capelaw HillGeneral View (period Unassigned) · 1412 yd
Green CraigMountain / peak · 1.1 mi
T WoodWood · 1.3 mi
C.T.R. WilsonMemorial · 1.3 mi
Bell's HillMountain / peak · 1.4 miOther information
Photo: Richard Webb · CC BY-SA 2.0