Note
Date 4 March 2015 - 31 May 2016
Event ID 1044273
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044273
This small fort is situated on a rocky hillock rising from a S-facing hillside above Farley. D-shaped on plan, it measures about 35m from ENE to WSW along the chord extending along the crag on the NNW by 28m transversely within a wall from 2.3m to 4.5m in thickness. Long runs of the outer face are visible in the tumbled rubble everywhere except on the NNW, standing up to 1.5m high on the SW, where the inner face also survives to a height of about 1m. The wall is thickest to either side of the entrance, which is on the S; faced with upright slabs, the inner edge of the passage measures 1.1m wide and in 1943 was sketched with checks by RCAHMS investigators, though there is no hint in their description that these were actually visible. Much of the interior is bare rock, but there is what may be a well immediately within the line of the wall on the E.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2874
