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BurnswarkBurnswark is a prominent Iron Age hill fort in Annandale, in Dumfriesshire. It stands to the north of another hill fort of possibly similar age named Birrens, in the Parish of Hoddom. Each side of the hill, to the south-east and the north-west, are the remains of Roman camps and the substantial Roman ordnance on Burnswark Hill indicates a bloody assault in the second Century AD. The name of the fort has suggested it as the location for the great battle of Brunanburh fought in 937, though with no physical evidence. (Read more) |
