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Note
Date 3 March 2015 - 24 December 2016
Event ID 1044268
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044268
The remains of a small fortification occupy a rocky spur that forms a promontory projecting SSW out of the hillside on the W bank of Allt na Criche. Its defences comprise two ditches up to 2.5m broad and from 0.4m to 0.8m deep, with low external counterscarp banks, which bar access from the hillside on the N, and a single ditch on the NW running back towards the rock-faces on this flank of the spur; elsewhere the ground falls away in steep and rocky slopes and has apparently been left undefended. The interior measures about 35m from N to S by 20m transversely (0.05ha), rising up to a summit at its S end where a stony scarp cuts across from E to W to form an inner enclosure. The entrance follows the E margin of the spur, where all the defences terminate short of the crest of the slope. The outer defences in particular are of relatively slight proportions and it is possible that these are simply outworks to the even smaller inner enclosure on the summit.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 24 December 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2869
