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Note
Date 25 January 2016 - 21 October 2016
Event ID 1045231
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045231
A small fort is situated on a promontory formed where a gully known as Deil's Neuk cuts through the escarpment on the E side of the Blackadder Water gorge NW of Greenlaw. Triangular on plan, it measures internally 45m in length from NE to SW by a maximum of 63m transversely (0.18ha) immediately to the rear of the defences. These comprise two widely-spaced ramparts with external ditches drawn in an arc across the NE approaches, though whether they are contemporary is not known. The inner rampart still stands some 2m high internally and its ditch is up to 5.8m in breadth by 1.2m in depth, apparently dug in three straight segments; the outer rampart lies some 10m outside the inner ditch and is rather slighter, standing only 1m high, but its ditch is up to 5.9m in breadth by 0.8m in depth and is flanked by a traces of counterscarp bank; it encloses an overall area of 0.38ha. The position of the entrance is unknown and at both ends the ramparts and ditches terminate on the margins of the promontory, though on the N the ditch of the outer turns slightly outwards and disappears in the top of a gully running down the slope. The interior has been cultivated in ridges and is otherwise featureless. Outside the defences an old trackway terrace drops down the face of the escarpment into the gorge, presumably making for a ford at the confluence of the Blackadder Water and the Fangrist Burn.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 21 October 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC4029
