Note
Date 28 April 2015 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1044354
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044354
Aerial photography has revealed a ploughed-down earthwork cutting across the neck of a steep-sided promontory between two burn gullies that ultimately feed into the Tore of Troup via Stonny Burn. An irregular tongue of roughly level ground, the margins of the summit are defined by low banks that have the appearance of old field boundaries, and it is possible that the ploughed down earthwork, which apparently comprises twin ditches with a medial bank cutting across the narrow neck on the NE, are the remains of a post-medieval field boundary rather than the defences of a fort. Nevertheless, the featureless interior, which has evidently been cultivated on several occasions in the past, measures about 160m in length from NE to SW by a maximum of 65m transversely (0.69ha). There are traces of a trackway hollow extending along the axis of the promontory, but no evidence of an original entrance.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2984
