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Note
Date 9 February 2016 - 31 August 2016
Event ID 1045328
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045328
Parchmarks photographed on a single occasion in 1977 revealed the site of a large fort on the hogbacked ridge known as Hirsel Law, while fieldwork by RCAHMS investigators in 1979 observed traces of the defences on the N, E and SE. Comprising a single rampart and ditch roughly following the contour, it measures internally about 315m from ENE to WSW by 170m transversely (4.4ha). The ditch is in the order of 4m in breadth and around the eastern and southern flanks, where the parchmarks also reveal the rampart, a dark mark to the rear may indicate shallow internal quarrying. No features are visible within the interior, and the parchmarks are too diffuse and ill-defined to identify any entrances. Nevertheless, a natural hollow that runs up the flank of the hill and crosses the line of the rampart a little to the E of the SW corner is a likely position for an entrance.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC4078
