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Date 5 November 2014 - 23 May 2016
Event ID 1044363
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044363
This fort occupies a headland cut off on the landward side by a chasm over 15m deep. Irregular on plan, the full extent of the interior is unclear, its defences comprising a single wall extending along the lip of the chasm on the landward, NE, side, and two short lengths of wall blocking off gullies that drop down to the sea on the S, though not one giving access into a tidal gully on the W, which cuts through the promontory from N to S and divides it into two discreet areas. In the plan and description published in the County Inventory for Argyll (RCAHMS 1980, 83, no.145, fig 70), the seaward half is discounted, extending to some 0.47ha of rough and exposed outcrops with grassy ledges, but the only possible access to it from the land must pass through the defences on the NE. These enclose a further 0.6ha, much of which is equally bleak bare outcrop. Nevertheless, traces of the stone footings of two round-houses were noted on a terrace on the NW. The entrance to the fort lies on the E, where a stone-revetted causeway crosses the bottom of the chasm, leading to steps cut in the floor of a gully that obliquely mounts the rock face to give access into the interior.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2487
