Caer Mote

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{{Infobox mountain

| name = Caer Mote

| photo = The Battery, north of Caermote, near Bothel - geograph.org.uk - 75018.jpg

| photo_caption = "The Battery", earthwork on Caer Mote

| elevation_m = 289

| elevation_ref =

| location = Cumbria, England

| coordinates = {{coord|54.7272|-3.2497|type:mountain_region:GB|display=inline,title}}

| grid_ref_UK = NY196376

}}

Caer Mote is a hill of {{convert|289|m}} in the north of the English Lake District near Bothel, Cumbria. Its summit lies just outside the boundary of the Lake District National Park and offers a view of Bassenthwaite Lake. Under the name Caermote Hill it is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. Wainwright's route is an ascent from Bothel to the northern summit St. John's Hill at {{convert|285|m}},St John's Hill is listed in the index to Wainwright's book, but is not mentioned on the first page of the chapter as is his convention for named or nameless summits.{{cite web |title=St. John's Hill [Caermote Hill N Top] |url=http://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/mountaindetails.php?rf=2354 |website=www.hill-bagging.co.uk |publisher=Database of British and Irish Hills |access-date=23 April 2021}} Source for height of St. John's Hill continuing south to the main summit and south east to meet a minor road beside the Roman fort and follow that road north for an anticlockwise circuit. In his original book Wainwright lists the height as 920 feet (280 m), but in the 2011 2nd edition Chris Jesty corrects this to 948 feet.{{cite book|last=Wainwright|first=A.|authorlink=Alfred Wainwright|title=The Outlying Fells of Lakeland|year=1974|publisher=Westmorland Gazette|location=Kendal|pages=206–209|chapter=Caermote Hill}}{{cite book |last1=Wainwright |first1=Alfred |editor1-last=Jesty |editor1-first=Chris |title=The outlying fells of Lakeland |chapter=Caermote Hill |date=2011 |publisher=Frances Lincoln |location=London |isbn=9780711231757 |page=206 |pages= |edition=2nd}}

There is an ancient earthwork enclosure of undetermined age, known as "The Battery" on the northern summit, St. John's Hill.{{NHLE|num=1007145|desc=The Battery|access-date=22 April 2021}}{{Cite PastScape|mnumber=9445|mname=The Battery|accessdate=4 May 2012}} There are traces of a 1st-century AD Roman fort below the hill, to the south east.{{Cite PastScape|mnumber=9904|mname=Caermote Roman Fort|accessdate=4 May 2012}}{{NHLE|num=1014285|desc=Two Roman forts and three sections of Roman road at Caermote|access-date=22 April 2021}}

Caermote Hill is listed by the Database of British and Irish Hills as a TuMP, and St John's Hill is given the subtitle "Caermote Hill N Top"; both summits are recognised as "Wainwright Outlying Fells".{{cite web |title=Caermote Hill |url=https://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/mountaindetails.php?qu=S&rf=3322 |website=www.hill-bagging.co.uk |publisher=Database of British and Irish Hills |access-date=23 April 2021}}