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Date 4 February 2015 - 31 May 2016
Event ID 1044152
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044152
This small fortification is situated on the sloping crest of a low hillock, which drops down from its summit on the NE. Roughly oval on plan, it measures about 29m from NE to SW 13m transversely (0.04ha) within a heavily robbed wall reduced to a bank between 2m and 4.5 thick and a maximum of 0.7m high; the position of the entrance is unknown, though there is a gap in the bank on the SE. Two scarps cutting across the interior suggested to John MaCrae, the OS surveyor who found the site that it has been cultivated over, though the upper may conceivably hide the wall-line of what was a circular structure standing on the very summit of the hillock.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2783
