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Date 15 January 2015 - 30 May 2016
Event ID 1044223
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044223
This fort occupies the summit of a flat-topped stack standing some 18m above the surrounding land and girt with cliffs around all its flanks except for the SE. Roughly oval on plan, the wall follows the margin of the summit to enclose an area measuring 60m from NW to SE by up to 27m transversely (0.12ha). The wall is thickest at the more accessible SE end, where it has been reduced to a mound of rubble some 5m in thickness and still standing up to 1.5m high internally and 3.5m externally; elsewhere along the flanks it reduces in thickness and may be little more than 1.5m on the N. In 1921 RCAHMS investigators also noted four large stones set on edge on the leading edhe of a terrace below the main wall on the SE and suggested that they belonged to an outer wall on this side. The entrance is on the E and gives onto a steep and rocky slope. The greater part of the interior is featureless, but the SE end is occupied by a large circular building measuring about 10.5m in diameter within a wall spread 2.5m in thickness; this is unlikely to be contemporary with the fort wall and probably overlies it. A sunken passage some 0.9m wide extends through the wall of the building on the E, turning ENE across to reach a corbelled cell apparently built against the inner face of the fort wall on the E.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 30 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2703
