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Note
Date 22 January 2015 - 30 May 2016
Event ID 1044226
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044226
This small fortification occupies a rocky hillock immediately N of the road leading to Cuidrach. Roughly oval on plan, it comprises an inner enclosure on the summit of the hillock, measuring about 28m from N to S by 10m transversely (0.02ha) within a wall reduced largely to a band of rubble, and an outer enclosure or annexe of similar dimensions (0.02ha), apparently springing from the inner wall on the NE and S respectively to take in two lower terraces on the E. The inner wall is almost 4m in thickness at the entrance on the E, while that into the outer enclosure lies directly below it on the lower terrace. The two terraces within the annexe may have been sub-divided from each other by a transverse wall. Opposite the entrance within the inner enclosure a hut-circle some 6m in diameter within a lower stony bank, possibly overlies the enclosing wall; a second structure identified as a hut-circle by RCAHMS investigators in 1921 is probably of relatively recent date.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 30 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2735
