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Note
Date 23 January 2016 - 21 October 2016
Event ID 1045221
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045221
This fort is situated on the eastern of the rocky summits of Brotherstone Hill West. An irregular oval plan, the S side is defended by no more than a rocky escarpment, but elsewhere the remains of at least two stone ramparts can be traced round the flanks of the summit, enclosing an area a little over 110m from E to W by a maximum of 72m transversely (0.63ha). At the E end, however, where James Hewat Craw mentions that the ramparts are accompanied by slight ditches 'where the rocky nature of the ground permitted excavation' (1921, 246), a third rampart lies within the line of what is elsewhere the inner rampart, apparently petering out on the N; this arrangement would be curious if all the ramparts were contemporary, and it is possibly the remains of an earlier enclosure that was superseded by the outer defences. An entrance pierces all three ramparts on the E in a straight line, but the gaps in the two ramparts at the W end are staggered, leading visitors along in front of the inner rampart and exposing their right side. Craw found no trace of any house stances within the interior, but the Scheduling document mentions three, though it does not give any details of their character. The surrounding ground has been extensively cultivated and the defences are overridden on the N by the upper ends of a series of rigs.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 21 October 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC4024
