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Note
Date 23 March 2015 - 31 May 2016
Event ID 1044311
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044311
This small fortification is situated on a narrow glacial ridge and is currently almost completely blanketed in gorse and whins. Roughly sub-rectangular on plan, its interior measures about 23m from E to W by 10m transversely (0.02ha). The defences comprise a single rampart and ditch, which are most clearly visible cutting across the spine of the ridge on the E and W, where the rampart is no more than 0.5m high and the ditch is 3m broad and 0.3m deep. Elsewhere the ditch drops down the flanks of the ridge, along the N flank forming a terrace about 1.5m wide some 3.5m below the crest. The S side was already lost in the whins when the OS first noted the fort in 1970 and they could find no trace of an entrance.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2911
