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Note
Date 31 July 2015 - 9 August 2016
Event ID 1044882
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044882
The defences of this fort, which occupies the summit of a low rounded hill, were heavily ploughed down in the post-medieval period and in the 19th century planted with trees; satellite imagery suggests that agricultural operations are continuing to damage the remains. Nevertheless, the fort is roughly circular on plan, measuring 55m in diameter (0.24ha) within two ramparts set about 8m apart. The inner, which is spread up to 6m in thickness by 0.3m in height, forms an almost complete circuit, but large sectors of the slighter outer rampart have been levelled around the NE and SW. A gap in the inner rampart on the SW is probably the entrance. Apart from some vague hollows beneath the traces of rig and furrow revealed on aerial photographs taken in 1990, the interior is featureless. What is probably a turf-banked sheepfold overlies the outer rampart on the N.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 09 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3238
