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Note
Date 23 January 2015 - 31 May 2016
Event ID 1044262
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044262
This small fortification is situated on the S shore of Loch Thurnaig, where a hammerhead promontory fringed with low cliffs is linked to the mainland by little more than a broad grass-grown storm beach. The defences comprise two elements: an outer wall barring access to the NW end of the hammerhead, cutting across its spine from E to W; and an inner D-shaped enclosure backing onto the lip of the low cliffs on the NE. The outer has been reduced largely to a stony scarp with a few large outer facing-stones along its line and cuts off an area measuring about 43m from NW to SE by 23m transversely (0.09ha); a gap in the wall on the SE is possibly the entrance. The inner enclosure is probably roughly oval, though there is little evidence of the wall on the NE, and measures internally about 21m from N to S by 17m transversely (0.03ha); where best preserved the wall forms a stony bank 2.6m in thickness and 0.5m in height. The relationship between the two elements is not known.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2747
