Note
Date 19 June 2015 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1044553
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044553
First noted in 1951, by RCAHMS on vertical aerial photographs, more detailed oblique coverage was recorded by CUCAP in 1968, but by 1983 the greater part of the site lay beneath an industrial development, and more recent construction may have destroyed any trace of the outer ditches that lay outside the development on the W. Situated on a hillock forming the S end of a low spur otherwise surrounded by boggy low-lying ground, the CUCAP photographs reveal a complex enclosure with five concentric ditches set in a belt 35m deep. The irregular spacing of the ditches, however, and indeed their different breadths, indicate that they probably represented several separate periods of construction. The innermost was thus relatively narrow, and not much more than 1m in breadth, enclosing an area some 40m in diameter (0.12ha), while the second was 4m in breadth, forming an enclosure 50m in internal diameter (0.2ha). The third was also relatively narrow, varying from 1m to 2.5m, but the fourth was 4m in breadth, and the fifth and outermost around the foot of the hillock 6m, forming a particularly bold mark across the neck of the spur on the N. The only entrance is on the S and certainly pierces four of the ditches, but the innermost is less well defined here and may even continue across the gap.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3138
