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Note
Date 21 October 2015 - 16 August 2016
Event ID 1044977
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044977
This fort is situated on the rocky summit of the black Meldon, which forms the W bulwark of the Meldon valley. Roughly oval on plan, with a flattened WNW side, it measures 73m from NNE to SSW by 40m transversely (0.23ha) within a stone rampart reduced to a band of rubble some 3m thick. An outer rampart, again represented by a band of rubble, apparently springs from the inner on the NNE to extend round the WNW flank and SSE end before finally petering out on the margin of the summit area on the S. Both ramparts at this end of the fort are pierced by an entrance in which the gaps are staggered to create an oblique approach that exposes the visitor's left side; a second entrance lies on the ENE in a sector defended only by the inner rampart. Within the interior, traces of no fewer than seven round-house stances can be seen, five of them forming a row immediately to the rear of the rampart on the WNW side; the other two appear to be part of a second row along the ESE margin of the summit area, leading to the idea that the interior has been laid out around an axial street. The round house are defined by shallow grooves and three encircle slight platforms, while in two others RCAHMS investigators in 1959 observed what they believed to be settings of stones marking central hearths.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 16 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3673
