What is recorded here
Castle Hill in Dumfries and Galloway is an unclassified fort recorded in Scotland's National Historic Environment database. The hill may have been a watchtower, a boundary marker or a temporary camp, but no human name or date has been attached to it. It stands as a silent witness to the lives that passed beneath it.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Hill as Fort (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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