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Note
Date 19 November 2015 - 24 May 2016
Event ID 1045073
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045073
This fort occupies a steep-sided hillock on the SE spur of White Hill, which forms a ridge separating the valley of the Brockhouse Burn on the SW from the Gala Water on the NE. Contained largely within a stone plantation dyke, the fort is now free of trees, which were evidently planted over a rash of small quarry-pits which pockmark the whole of the interior and the defences. Apart from these, the oval interior is featureless and measures about 110m from ENE to WSW by 76m transversely (0.69ha) within twin ramparts with a broad medial ditch; where best preserved on the N the inner rampart stands 1.2m high internally and 4.5m above the bottom of the ditch. In addition to these defences within the plantation wall, Getmapping satellite imagery (2015) indicates a possible ploughed-out outer ditch on the SW, mounting the slope out of a natural gully that flanks SE side of the fort, and presumably extending round the easiest line of approach across the spur from the NW. Aerial photography also shows several gaps in the ramparts, but most are probably the result of quarrying and the only one that appears to be original is accompanied by a causeway across the ditch on the E.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 24 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3765
