Note
Date 18 February 2015 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1044182
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044182
All the visible elements of this fortification occupying a precipitous promontory on the coast NE of Brough probably belong to an undocumented castle, and if there was an earlier fort here nothing of it remains visible. The defences comprise a ditch some 12m broad and 4m deep cut across the neck on the on the SSW, behind which there was probably a keep guarding an entrance, though nothing of this is visible. Ranges of buildings extend down the margins of the promontory to either side of a central roadway, and there is a bank with an external ditch separating them from the narrow finger of land that projects a further 40m out into the sea. The interior of the castle measures no more than 30m from NNE to SSW by 15m transversely (0.04ha).
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2824
