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Note
Date 21 August 2015 - 24 May 2016
Event ID 1045125
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045125
This fort or fortified settlement is situated on the SW shoulder of the western end of the ridge known as Camp Knowe, where the ground begins to fall way sharply above Gattonside. Roughly oval on plan, it measures about 75m from ENE to WSW by a maximum of 38m transversely (0.24ha) within two ramparts that have been heavily reduced by stone-robbing and cultivation. No trace of a medial ditch is visible, but in the light of other forts in the area and the reduction of the outer rampart to a terrace, one may be present. The interior is featureless, and while the entrance on the WSW is original, in 1948 RCAHMS investigators suggested that if the gap on the E was original, it had been adapted by later stone-robbers and cultivators.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 24 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3326
