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Note
Date 5 October 2015 - 20 October 2016
Event ID 1044871
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044871
This fort is situated on a hillock that forms a local summit rising out of the gentler middle slopes on the crest of Chester Rig. Roughly circular on plan, it measures about 55m in diameter (0.24ha) within twin ramparts and a medial ditch, but most of the interior is occupied concentrically by a later settlement measuring 47m in diameter (0.17ha) within a wall reduced to a band of rubble. The inner rampart of the fort has been reduced to an external scarp dropping down into the medial ditch, and while the outer rampart generally extends along the lip of the counterscarp, on the SE it is separated from the ditch by a narrow berm, though this is possibly evidence of two periods of construction in the rampart (see profile drawn by David Christison 1887, 61, fig 46). The entrance is on the NW, where a deeply worn hollow mounts the flank of the knoll and divides into two to serve the round-houses set round the edges of the area enclosed by the later settlement. At least three of these round-houses comprise low stony ring-banks, but there are possibly as many as eight in total.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 20 October 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3557
