Note
Date 23 January 2016 - 15 August 2016
Event ID 1045229
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045229
Cropmarks have revealed the ditches of a fort or fortified settlement first recorded about 1921 by James Hewat Craw, situated on a low rise on the broad crest of the hill above Clinthill (See also Atlas No.4027). Oval on plan, the cropmarks show two ditches some 4m broad and set 5m apart, enclosing an area measuring about 85m from ENE to WSW by 65m transversely (0.44ha); allowing for the presence of an inner rampart the interior extends to some 0.35ha. Two circular maculae visible on some photographs indicate the positions of internal round-houses in the S part of the interior, while four anomalies in a geophysical survey of the SE quadrant are probably the remains of structures too (Wise 1995). A causeway across the outer ditch on the E marks the position of the entrance, a mark merging with the inner ditch perhaps reflecting a shallow hollow worn by traffic across the inner causeway.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 15 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC4026
