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Note
Date 27 November 2014 - 9 August 2016
Event ID 1044427
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044427
This small fortification, which is situated on a steep-sided and rocky knoll, has been heavily robbed. Roughly oval on plan, it measures about 36m from N to S by 17m transversely (0.05ha), within a wall extending around the margins of the summit. The wall is spread about 2m thick and has long runs of outer face on the NE and SW, at the former standing 1.4m in height; the basal course, however, is set at least 1.8m below the interior, implying that in its original form the wall must have been at least 3m high externally. Nothing can be seen of the entrance but it was probably in a gap in the wall on the NW. The N end of the interior is overlain by the remains of a circular stone structure that RCAHMS investigators considered too indefinite to render on the plan. There are several small quarry scoops in the S half of the interior, and a small, rectangular, cultivation plot.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 09 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2558
