Note
Date 19 February 2015 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1044187
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044187
This enclosure occupies the crest of a craggy hillock forming the N spur of the high ground S of South Yarrows, and commands extensive views out to the N and E. Oval on plan, it measures about 90m from N to S by 40m transversely (0.27ha) within a single wall which follows the lip of the low crags along the E and W sides and returns sharply across the gentler slope at the S end. The course of the wall is only intermittently visible along the flanks, and where best preserved at the S end is marked by little more than a stony bank some 2.5m thick and 0.4m high; there is also what may be an entrance in the S end close to the W margin of the hillock. The interior is largely featureless, but there is a small trapezoidal enclosure of relatively recent date at the N end adjacent a marker stone set in a small cairn of stones. The handful of other enclosures in elevated positions in Caithness are all forts, but if that is truly the case here then the perimeter has been very heavily robbed.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2831
