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Note
Date 30 September 2014 - 23 May 2016
Event ID 1044620
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044620
This fort occupies the rocky summit of Borraichill Mor rising above the moorland to the NE of Port Ellen. Sub-square on plan, it measures about 90m across within a stone wall about 2.2m in average thickness. The outer face incorporates massive blocks and on the NE stands up to 1.8m high, and though the inner face is not so well-preserved this stands 1.1m high on the SE. The main entrance, which is choked with rubble, is in a shallow gully on the NE and forms a passage 2.8m in length by 1.5m in breadth. In addition narrow transverse passages 0.7m and 0.9m wide respectively can be seen within the thickness of the wall on the ESE and W respectively, that on the ESE retaining several lintels. Apart from a later enclosure formed by the insertion of a wall into a shallow gully on the WSW, the interior is featureless.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2139
