Note
Date 9 July 2015 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1044566
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044566
Overlooking the mouth of the River Eden, cropmarks have revealed the defences of a fort at the top of the escarpment above the paper mill at Guardbridge. Roughly D-shaped on plan, an arc of no fewer than four concentric ditches about 3m in breadth can be seen on the photographs, forming a belt some 25m deep blocking access from the NW and SW. The interior measures about 80m from N to S along the chord formed by the escarpment, by little more than 30m transversely (0.21ha), though when some allowance is made for the presence of the inner rampart the area reduces to about 0.18ha. There is no evidence of an entrance in the arc of defences on the W, the most likely positions being along the margins of the escarpment on the N or S.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3168
