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Date 17 August 2015 - 31 May 2016
Event ID 1045103
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045103
This small earthwork cuts off a promontory formed between the gully of the Hob's Burn and an old channel of the Rule Water. The ground thus falls away steeply for a height of some 9m on either side of the neck where the approach from the S is barred by a massive rampart 7m in thickness by over 3m in height internally and dropping 1.8m externally into a ditch 7.5m in breadth by 1.5m in depth. The pear-shaped interior, which slopes gently down northwards, measures 50m from NNE to SSW by a maximum of 38m transversely (0.12ha). There is a possible entrance on the W leading down to the Hob's Burn.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3292
