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Note
Date 30 October 2015 - 3 August 2016
Event ID 1044886
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044886
Nothing remains of this fort, which had been largely destroyed by the Craigton Quarry before RCAHMS investigators visited in 1926. By that time no more than a spread fragment of a rampart survived on the NE, one of at least two that are depicted on earlier editions of the OS 25-inch map (Linlithgow 1856, sheet 6.2; 1895, sheet 6.2). Roughly oval on plan, the earlier of these maps gives the impression that the two ramparts formed an almost continuous circuit, though the accompanying commentary in the Name Book suggests that the steep N flank, which had already been subjected to some quarrying, had been left undefended (Linlthgowshire, No.5, p 20). A possible third rampart is shown between the inner and outer at the SE end, extending W from what was probably an entrance on the ESE; a gap in the outer rampart possibly marks the position of a second entrance on the W. The interior measured about 85m from NW to SE by up to 55m transversely (0.35ha). In the course of its destruction the upper stone of a rotary quern and two shallow stone basins were recovered (RCAHMS 1929, 187, no.283).
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 03 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3688
