Note
Date 21 October 2015 - 20 October 2016
Event ID 1044968
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044968
This fort or fortified settlement is set high on a spur descending between the Kittlegairy Burn on the S and the Common Burn on the N. The whole spur is sloping, falling away particularly steeply along either flank, and the fort occupies a point where the contours open out a little before the ground plunges on down to the Soonhope Burn on the W. Oval on plan, its defences comprise two ramparts forming inner and outer enclosures, and the outer rampart is accompanied by an external ditch across the most vulnerable line of approach from the higher ground to the SE. The inner enclosure measures internally 47m from NNE to SSW by 41m transversely (0.14ha), and its rampart displays a long run of large outer facing-stone on the ENE. Apart from a scarp dug into the slope behind the inner rampart on the SE, its interior is featureless, and the entrance, which has been heavily disturbed, is on the S, approached obliquely from the entrance through the outer rampart to expose the visitor's right side. The outer enclosure is considerably larger than the inner, with its rampart swinging on a wider arc across the spur on the SE to take in a roughly triangular area measuring about 70m from NE to SW by 60m transversely (0.3ha). The relationship between the inner and outer enclosures is unknown, and they may as easily represent successive enclosure as a unitary scheme, but at some stage the inner and outer ramparts have been linked to the W of the entrance.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 20 October 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3667
