Note
Date 15 June 2015 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1044537
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044537
Black Cairn Hill forms the highest part of Newburgh Common and is surmounted by a large oval fort measuring about 123m from NNE to SSW by 95m transversely (0.9ha) within a rampart reduced to little more than a band of stones. A sector on the N has been entirely removed, but a few facing-stones remain in place on the NE, indicating an original thickness of some 3m. There are entrances on the SE and WNW, though in the opinion of the OS surveyor in 1970 the latter may be relatively recent. A small quarry has also been dug across the line of the rampart on the SSW. Apart from a modern cairn marking the boundary between the parishes of Abdie and Newburgh, the interior is featureless.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3124