Note
Date 8 May 2015 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1044524
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044524
Cropmarks have revealed the presence of a fort encircling the hillock surmounted by Hilton House. At least five ditches are present on the NW, extending round onto the NE, but the rest of the hillock is clothed in woodland with a dense understorey. Geophysical survey has confirmed the presence of the ditches elsewhere (Poller 2012) and at least two of the ditches were located in a cable trench on the E (Lewis 2009); more recently traces of the two outermost ramparts on the SW have been recorded within the woodland, while a scarp 2m high on the SE is possibly a fragment of the inner rampart. The projection of the cropmarks, combined with this new survey, suggests that the fort encloses an oval area measuring about 70m from NW to SE by up to 50m transversely (0.27ha), though there may be a rather smaller inner enclosure on the summit. The cropmarks reveal a clear entrance on the NW, to the S of which there may have been a reduction in the number of ditches and ramparts, and there may be a second entrance on the E.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3040
