Note
Date 26 May 2015 - 31 May 2016
Event ID 1044576
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044576
This small fortification forms a D-shaped enclosure backing onto the E bank of a shallow stream gully just upstream from where the public road crosses the burn at Craigmill. It measures about 50m from N to S along the chord formed by the lip of the gully by 25m transversely (0.12ha) within two concentric ditches set about 6m apart. The inner ditch is between 3m and 4m in breadth and the outer no more than 2m, and making some allowance for the presence of an internal rampart the interior probably extended to little more than 0.8ha. The ditches are most clearly defined on the N, where they terminate short of the edge of the gully to leave an entrance about 8m wide. The ring-ditch of at least one timber round-house can be seen at the N end of the interior.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3077
