Note
Date 5 December 2014 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1044465
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044465
This fort is situated within an old plantation on a low hillock in an arable landscape. Oval on plan, it measures about 70m from E to W by 45m transversely (0.24ha) within a single rampart accompanied by an external ditch, the latter visible only on the W. The entrance is on the E where the rampart still stands 1.7m in height externally, and 0.7m internally. Mutilated by an old road on the S and elsewhere by field-banks, the interior is featureless. In the 19th century 'gravestones' were said to have been found here, and earlier a sword and a coat of mail. More recently Rampart Scotland excavated a trench across the rampart and recovered charcoal dating to the Late Bronze Age from its core; this work is not yet published (Murray Cook pers comm).
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2616
