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Note
Date 16 December 2014 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1044481
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044481
This fort is situated on the rounded knoll that forms the summit of Milquhanzie Hill, which is itself part of a long steep-sided ridge. The SE and W flanks are protected by the steep slopes, but elsewhere on the NE and NW up to three ramparts are visible, all of them reduced to little more than stony scarps no more than 0.9m high; the inner rampart, however, which probably encloses an oval area measuring about 45m from NE to SW by 40m transversely (0.14ha), is not entirely concentric to the outer pair and in 1996 RCAHMS investigators suggested that it may represent a separate period of enclosure. The two outer ramparts swing round the NE flank and peter out on the steep NW flank, where in 1996 the construction of an access road to the summit had exposed traces of a rock-cut ditch in front of the outermost. If representing a separate period of construction, these enclose a much larger area measuring up to 60m from NE to SW by 50m transversely (0.23ha), with an entrance approached obliquely by a trackway on the N; the gaps in the rampart are staggered in such away as to expose the left-hand side of any one approaching from the exterior, rather than the right. Whether this entrance also served the inner enclosure is lost beneath the access road, which serves three telecommunication masts. Within the larger interior there are traces of five small sub-rectangular platforms, one of which lies between the inner and middle rampart on the W.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2636
