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Note
Date 30 October 2015 - 1 June 2016
Event ID 1044887
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044887
This small fort is situated to the NW of Ochiltree Mill, occupying a hillock with a steep escarpment along its NNE flank. Elsewhere a belt of ramparts has been constructed, though they are largely reduced to scarps, three on the E and S, fading into two on the SW, and only the inner continuing N from a gap on the W to die just short of the lip of the escarpment. RCAHMS investigators in 1924 suspected this was an entrance and make no mention of the gap on the W, which their plan shows opening into a shallow hollow in the interior. The only other feature within the interior, which measures about 50m from ESE to WNW along the lip of the escarpment by 30m transversely (0.13ha) is a natural mound enclosed by a slight ditch with an external bank; occupying the whole of the E end of the fort, this feature is probably no more than a plantation ring.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 01 June 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3690
