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Note
Date 29 October 2014 - 10 August 2016
Event ID 1044700
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044700
Excavation in advance of gravel extraction 1960-62 revealed evidence of a ditched enclosure apparently cutting off a promontory at the southern end of a fluvio-glacial terrace. Originally conceived by the excavator as a double-ditched earthwork, more recent analysis prior to publication (Abernethy 2009) suggests that only one ditch was ever open at any one time, but that it had been recut on at least four occasions and on slightly different lines; in its separate phases it varied from 3m to 4.5m in breadth by 1.5m in depth below the level of the subsoil. The ditch was traced for some 70m in an arc extending from the E margin of the promontory round towards the W and may have cut off an area measuring up to 80m across (0.5ha), within which there was evidence of at least two round-houses and several large cooking pits, in addition to evidence of later use for a cemetery and for occupation in the early medieval period.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 10 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2461
