Note
Date 5 February 2016 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1045289
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045289
This fort was first recognised on the crest of this low hill by James Hewat Craw in 1912 (RCAHMS 1915, 31, 33, no.63), by which time it had been largely ploughed out, and it is now only known from cropmarks. Roughly oval on plan, but with a flattened NNW side and angles where the defences terminate to either side of the opposed entrances on the ENE and WSW, it measures about 85m from ENE to WSW by 67m transversely within two concentric ditches set some 3m apart. The inner ditch is up to 4m in breadth, reducing to 2m around the SE flank, while the outer is little more than 2m round most of the circuit. In addition to the ditches a possible external palisade trench can be traced round the ENE end and along NNW side, though whether contemporary with the earthwork defences or an earlier enclosure is unknown. At the entrance on the ENE the terminals of the ditches are slightly staggered to either side of the causeway, so that on the N the ditches terminate inside the line of the ditch on the S side, and the WSW entrance, which is largely hidden beneath the edge of the field, was probably arranged likewise; whatever qualities these presented to the approaching visitor, they were reversed at the opposing entrance. The interior is largely featureless, though the most recent photography reveals what may be the scar of the rampart.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC4067
