Coulter Motte Hill
Near Biggar, Lanarkshire
Open all year round
Coulter Motte Hill gallery
Scramble up the mound of a medieval motte-castle, in a strategic position overlooking a river crossing.
Little is known of Coulter Motte. We know it’s a mound dating back to the medieval period, but when it was constructed, what stood atop it, and the extent of the original motte-castle are all completely unknown.
The motte, considered a nuisance by the then-landowner, was nearly removed for sand and gravel in 1931. It was saved from an inglorious fate when it was taken into state care the next year.
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