Note
Date 5 June 2015 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1044595
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044595
This fortification occupies a promontory a little N of the highest point along the cliff-line of Red Head. Roughly triangular on plan, the interior measures about 70m from NNE to SSW by 55m transversely (0.28ha), falling away precipitously on the E and S, and defended elsewhere by a single rampart with an external ditch drawn in an arc to bar access from the NW and W. The rampart has been mutilated by the excavation of a trench during WW11 along much of its length, but at its S end it still stands 1m high above the level of the interior and 3.7m above the bottom of the ditch, which in this sector has been adapted from a natural gully. The entrance is in the centre of the arc on the W and is approached by a causeway across the ditch. The interior is featureless.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3102
