What is recorded here
Oldcastles is an Iron Age fort in the Scottish Borders, remembered for defending people against uncertainty and change. Its stones may have watched herds, families and frightened children move through valleys before written history. The name suggests pride rather than despair, as if strength and continuity mattered more than fear.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Oldcastles as Fort (iron Age). 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
OldcastlesFarmhouse (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned) · 307 yd
BilliemireCist(s) (bronze Age) · 798 yd
Auchencrow BurnBarrow (prehistoric) · 1051 yd
Billie MainsQuarry (post Medieval) · 1157 yd
Billie CastleCastle (medieval), Corn Drying Kiln (medieval), Enclosure(s) (medieval) · 1.0 mi
Jim Clark MemorialMemorial · 1.3 mi
War MemorialMemorial · 1.6 mi
Old Toll PlantationForest · 1.9 mi
Blanerne CastleCastle (medieval), Tower House (medieval) · 2.4 mi
Cannybank CovertForest · 3.6 mi
BrockholesNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 4.2 mi
Coldingham PrioryNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 5.2 miOther information
Photo: ian shiell · CC BY-SA 2.0