East Lomond Hill
The East Lomond Hill, also known as Falkland Hill (height 448 metres) dominates the town of Falkland from the south.
It contains a scheduled monument East Lomond Hill, fort and cairn (HES reference SM810).
| HES listing details[1] |
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| Address/Site Name
East Lomond Hill, fort and cairn |
| Description
The monument is the remains of a prehistoric fort and burial cairn on the summit of East Lomond Hill. The hill fort is likely to have been in use in the Iron Age (sometime between 500 BC and AD 600), while the burial cairn is earlier and dates probably from the Bronze Age. The remains of the cairn are visible on the summit as a low, circular turf-covered concentration of stones, measuring around 13m across. [...] |
| Statement of National Importance
The monument is of national importance as the upstanding remains of a multi-period site, which includes a prehistoric burial cairn and an Iron Age hill fort with complex defences, which is probably of more than one phase in itself. [...] |
Further references
"A multivallate Iron Age huillfort, hte highest in Fife (424m. O.D.) on a commanding site, measuring 60m. by 30m, within as many as four walls or ramparts. [...]"[4]