Note
Date 12 November 2014 - 23 May 2016
Event ID 1044395
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044395
This fort occupies a precipitous promontory on the north coast of Ardnamurchan, its defences comprising a wall reduced to a bank of rubble some 3.7m thick and 1m high with two runs of outer face, which cuts across between the cliff-edges to block access from the landward side. Trapezoidal on plan, the interior measures a maximum of 90m from NW to SE by 45m transversely (0.29ha). The entrance midway along the wall opens onto a natural cleft in front of the wall, access to which is covered by a short length of outer wall, though this has been reduced to little more than a scatter of stones. The interior is largely bare rock and featureless, though in 1970 the OS surveyor identified a small structure at the foot of a rock-face as a shieling hut; it does not appear on the RCAHMS plan.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2523
