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Date 19 June 2015 - 31 August 2016
Event ID 1044555
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044555
This fort occupies the crest of a spur that projects W from lower slopes of Walton Hill. Although directly overlooked by Walton Hill, the ground falls away steeply on the W, while a gully climbing the slope from the NW serves to separate the spur from the main bulk of the hill. The ramparts of the fort have been heavily reduced, and further damage has been caused by quarrying on the S flank and the insertion of a burial-vault for the Crawford family into the interior, but enough remains on the NW flank to show that its defences comprised three ramparts stepping down the slope in a belt about 22m deep. The innermost has been reduced to no more than a scarp, and an external ditch is visible accompanying the outermost. The size of the interior is difficult to estimate, but on the assumption that the defences were originally set out concentrically round the whole circuit, it measures about 85m from NE to SW by a minimum of 40m (0.3ha) and possibly as much 75m transversely (0.5ha); the depiction on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map, when the defences appear to have been more complete on the S, suggest the latter. There is a possible entrance through the outer defences on the NW, where the plan drawn up by RCAHMS investigators in 1925 shows the outer rampart turning slightly inwards to either side of the gap, but there is no equivalent gap in the innermost rampart. For what it is worth the map omits the gap in the outer defences on the NW, but appears to show an entrance on the S.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3141
