Note
Date 12 February 2015 - 31 May 2016
Event ID 1044177
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044177
Access to this precipitous promontory on the cliffs on the N side of the mouth of Dunbeath Bay is barred on the SW by a rampart with an external ditch and a counterscarp bank. The crest of the inner rampart stands about 1.7m above the bottom of the ditch, and a gap for the entrance has been left along the NW margin of the promontory. The interior measures about 50m from NE to SW by 20m transversely (0.08ha) and rises towards the NE, where there is what may be the stump of a broch on the summit. The latter measures about 8m across within a wall reduced to a bank of rubble about 5m thick. A WWII lookout post has been constructed in its seaward flank on the SE.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2810
