Note
Date 29 January 2015 - 31 May 2016
Event ID 1044138
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044138
An enclosure occupying the summit of a steep-sided hillock backing onto an angle in the cliff-line below Garrabost, was first identified as the remains of a fortification on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire, Island of Lewis, 1851, sheet 21), and has been described as such ever since. The hillock rises abruptly at the foot of the Garrabost crofts, standing about 7m above the ground on the E, but falling away almost sheer to the sea on the N, W and S. If indeed this is the site of a prehistoric fortification, its perimeter has been almost completely removed, for the bank extending along the crest of the hillock on the E is almost entirely earthen and seems more likely to be an enclosure associated with the post-medieval lazy-beds that cover the summit of the hillock and extend back to the foot of the crofts on the SE. Nevertheless, the area enclosed on the summit measures about 30m from E to W by 25m transversely (0.07ha). No entrance is visible.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2768
