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Date 18 February 2015 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1044180
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044180
This promontory fort is situated on Holborn Head, precipitous headland girt with sheer cliffs over 30m high and riven with two deep clefts that cut into the cliffs on the SE and across two thirds of the neck on the landward side. Strongly protected by these natural ditches, the artificial defences comprise a thick wall about 145m in length, which forms band of stony debris with occasional facing-stones extending across the full breadth of the promontory on the crest of the slope that rises sharply up behind the clefts; at the foot of this slope in the central sector, on the lip of the seaward cleft, an outer bank about 0.75m high can be seen, though opinion on its character is divided, some investigators omitting it (Mercer 198177, fig 31), others suggesting that it is derived from an internal quarry scoop (Lamb 1980, 73). The entrance is towards the WNW end of the main wall and the interior, which measures about 145m from NW to SE by up to 75m ransversely (0.8ha) and is partly bare rock, is featureless.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2826
