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Note
Date 19 January 2016 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1045149
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045149
This fort is situated on a steep-sided spur dropping down on either flank into sikes that drain westwards into the Kelphope Burn. The full extent of the fort is difficult to determine, having been ploughed down and heavily reduced probably during the late 18th century, and having appeared on General William Roy's Military Map of Scotland (1747-55) it escapes further notice until 1908 (RCAHMS 1909, 40-1, no.197). The most prominent element of the defences are two ramparts with a medial ditch defending the more accessible NE flank, but in 1979 an OS surveyor traced the inner rampart round the rest of the rounded summit, though it had been reduced to little more than an intermittent scarp. The measurements given by the OS of 154m in length by 38m in breadth, however, do not resolve with any features visible on aerial photographs and satellite imagery, and the only possible traces of a perimeter enclose an area measuring no more than 135m from NE to SW by 45m transversely (0.58ha). To the rear of the inner rampart on the NE, separated from it by a broad hollow, what may be the remains of a wall can be seen enclosing a smaller area some 60m across on NE end of a rocky spine that extends down the axis of the interior. Up to eight platforms for round-houses are visible in this area, and the OS suggested this enclosure was the remains of a later settlement within the interior of the fort. The entrance into the fort is on the NE where a later field-bank also traverses the defences.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC4010
