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Note
Date 15 October 2015 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1044930
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044930
This fort occupies a hillock on the spur descending NW above Bryland, and having been planted with trees in the 19th century now lies within a clearing in a larger coniferous forest. Oval on plan, the fort measures about 80m from NE to SW by 30m transversely (0.2ha) within a rampart which forms a stony bank to either side of the entrances in the NE and SW ends, but is otherwise reduced to a scarp along the flanks. Flanking the entrances at both ends, however, there is also an outer rampart, again reduced to a scarp, while lying downslope on the N and along the foot of the slope in the saddle to the the SE traces of a ditch can be seen. Clearly broken into four segments by undug causeways in the saddle, RCAHMS investigators in 1959 suggested these were the remains of an unfinished circuit. Within the interior there is a shallow quarry scoop immediately in the rear of the inner rampart, but at four points house platforms have been cut into the back of the scoop.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3637
