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Note
Date 15 January 2016 - 1 June 2016
Event ID 1045138
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045138
This small fortification occupies a hillock formed between the deeply incised gully of the Thirlestane Burn on the SW and what in origin is probably an ancient meltwater channel on the NE. The resulting hillock is steep sided, broadening out south-eastwards from what is in effect a neck on the NW. Here a belt of ramparts has been constructed, the inner of which turns along the NE flank of the interior, though this sector lies in an improved field and has been reduced to a faint scarp. The inner rampart is otherwise relatively massive, standing over 1.5m high above the level of the interior and 5m above the bottom of its broad external ditch. The outer ramparts are comparatively slight, the second no more than 0.7m high and the third on the counterscarp of the outer ditch 0.4m. The interior, which is bisected diagonally by the stone dyke of the field to the NE, measures about 70m in length from NW to SE by up to 27m in breadth; it is featureless. James Hewat Craw, who first found and planned the earthworks, identified a track dropping down towards the burn from the rear of the inner rampart, but whether this is the original entrance is unknown.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 01 June 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3998
