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Date 1 October 2015 - 20 October 2016
Event ID 1044869
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044869
This fort lies on the E spur of White Hill, where it turns eastwards to descend gradually down towards the old steading of Mitchelhill. Roughly circular on plan, it measures about 50m in diameter (0.22ha) within the innermost of up to three ramparts, though most of the interior is occupied by a later enclosure measuring 36m in diameter within a low band of rubble. Reduced to a low bank around the greater part of the circuit, and elsewhere to a scarp, the innermost rampart of the defences rises no more than 0.3m above the surface of the interior, but externally it stands over 3m above the bottom of its accompanying ditch. In some places a counterscarp rampart bank can be traced along the outer lip of the ditch, and there is a strong impression from the plan drawn up by RCAHMS investigators in 1957 that these inner defences have been inserted into the interior of a larger enclosure, now represented by the outermost rampart and its ditch. The latter line picks up on the W side of the entrance on the SE and extends concentrically round the W flank only to diverge on a wider arc on the NW and return to meet the counterscarp rampart of the inner defences on the N. The sequence cannot be demonstrated stratigraphically without excavation, but if correct the outer enclosure would have taken in an area of about 0.35ha. Apart from the settlement enclosure, the interior is featureless.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 20 October 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3546
