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Date 13 February 2015 - 31 May 2016

Event ID 1044193

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044193

What are probably the remains of a fort are situated on a precipitous promontory below Stella Maris on the E coast of South Ronaldsay, though the composition of its defences is unclear. The OS surveyor who noted the fort in 1973 identified a single rampart and ditch, and suggested that three hollows in the S margin of the promontory outside this line were probably modern. The latter, however, are identified by Raymond Lamb as the butt ends of no less than four ditches with intermediate ramparts on the S side of a central entrance causeway, together with another two on the N side. The interior, which measures some 60m in length from ENE to WSW by 14m transversely, is featureless, though there are traces of drystone masonry along its SE margin.

Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2814

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