Note
Date 22 February 2015 - 17 August 2016
Event ID 1044113
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044113
This promontory fort is situated on the spectacular cliiffs on the NW coast of Hoy, which form a precipice falling away some 325m to the sea along its NW flank. Essentially a stack, the only access is across a narrow neck on the E, from which the route to the summit is blocked first by a short length of wall between a spur of outcrop and the cliff-edge some 3m below the crest, and second by a grass grown bank up to 5m in thickness by 0.7m in height, which can be traced along the landward margin of the stack. The peat covered and featureless interior forms an irregular quadrilateral on plan, measuring 175m along the cliff-edge on the WNW by a maximum of 70m transversely (0.87ha).
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 17 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2835
