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Note
Date 6 October 2015 - 17 August 2016
Event ID 1044879
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044879
This fort occupies the broad summit of Candyburn Hill, but it had already been ploughed down before David Christison visited about 1886. The depiction on the 1st edition OS 25-inch map (Peebles 1859, sheet 11.7) and the supporting description in the Name Book (Peeblesshire, no. 37, p 11), suggests the defences comprised three ramparts, the depiction showing them in a spiral with what was possibly the entrance on the NW, and this provided the basis for the account drawn up by RCAHMS investigators in 1958 (RCAHMS 1967, 106, no.266). In 1971, however, the OS revised the depiction and identified two ramparts reduced to scarps, enclosing an oval area measuring 70m from NNE to SSW by 55m transversely (0.28ha); they also identified a gap in the ramparts on the NE. While evidently representing elements of the earlier OS depiction, it is difficult to resolve the two, but it is possible that there was formerly a smaller enclosure within the interior.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 17 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3562
