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Note
Date 13 October 2015 - 20 October 2016
Event ID 1044917
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044917
This fort on the summit of Blyth Bank Hill has been heavily degraded by stone-robbing and cultivation. Its defences comprise two schemes, probably representing successive periods of construction, though the sequence between them is unknown. The inner scheme of three ramparts, all largely reduced to stony scarps, encloses a roughly oval area on the summit measuring 55m from ENE to WSW by 43m transversely (0.18ha); the inner rampart is probably accompanied by an external ditch, but this is only visible to either side of the entrance on the ENE. The outer scheme comprises twin ramparts with a medial ditch lying a little further down the slope and heavily ploughed down, so much so that it is entirely lost around the S and E, and elsewhere little more than the scarp of the inner rampart survives. Oval on plan, it encloses an area measuring about 125m from ENE to WSW by perhaps 85m transversely (0.7ha). Apart from what may be a later enclosure riding over the inner defences on the NW, NE, and S, the interior is featureless.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 20 October 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3624
