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Date 14 January 2015 - 18 May 2016

Event ID 1044215

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044215

Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland

This promontory fort is situated on the coastal cliffs at the mouth of Glen Shellesder, immediately NE of the mouth of the burn. The defences comprise a single wall drawn across the neck of the promontory on the ESE to cut off an area measuring about 70m from ESE to WNW by 40m transversely (0.31ha). The wall measures at least 3.4m in thickness, and though there is no trace of the inner face, several stretches of the outer face are visible, standing up to 1m high in five courses. The entrance is towards the S margin of the promontory and is 0.85m wide at its outer end. The interior, which is rough and uneven, descending from a summit area immediately behind the wall down to a lower terrace at its seaward end, contains three hut-circles. The first is about 9m in diameter within a low wall and overlies the fort wall on the very highest part of the promontory on its E margin. The second also lies in the upper part of the interior, but on its S margin, and measures 5m in internal diameter, while the third, on the S margin of the lower terrace, and is oval and measures about 4.9m by 3.4m internally. Outside the fort a later enclosure abuts the wall and is overlain by one of two small huts associated with later activity round about, which includes extensive cultivation.

Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2695