Note
Date 6 November 2014 - 23 May 2016
Event ID 1044370
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044370
This small fortification is situated on a coastal promontory that rises from E to W in three terraces to a rocky summit. The latter measures about 30m from NNE to SSW by 15m transversely, and there are remains of a wall extending along its W margin. The terrace below the summit on the E, also carries traces of a wall on its leading edge, and in a gully on the N its outer face is standing 1.2m high in five courses, while at the foot of the knoll on the next terrace down there has been yet another wall; these latter walls are effectively creating a promontory enclosure. On the ESE the surviving fragment of the latter has preserved one side of an entrance. The summit and these enclosed terraces on the E are all featureless, but Erskine Beveridge identified midden material here and recovered an assemblage of decorated pottery, including two sherds bearing an incised deer.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2496
