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Note
Date 15 December 2015 - 31 August 2016
Event ID 1045181
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045181
This fort occupied the summit of Skid Hill, but the greater part of its interior has been destroyed by a now disused quarry and fragments of two ramparts survive only on the N and NW. The sides of the hill are steep, dropping away in craggy outcrops around the N side, the inner rampart following the margins of the summit, and the outer the lip of a lower terrace. Where best preserved on the NW the inner forms a stony bank 0.3m high internally and 1.5m externally, while the outer is spread about 3m in thickness and is 0.5m in external height. While probably roughly oval, the original size of the interior is difficult to estimate, but it must have been in the order of 100m across (0.7ha), and there was probably an entrance approached by a track on the W.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3873
