Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Note
Date 11 February 2016 - 1 June 2016
Event ID 1045337
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045337
This fort occupies the summit of the Lowries Knowes, which falls away in a rocky face over 10m high along its NW flank. Pear-shaped on plan, it measures 55m from ENE to WSW by a maximum of 37m transversely (0.17ha) within a heavily robbed wall reduced to a bank of rubble spread between 2.6m and 6.3m in thickness; robber trenches visible in the rubble suggest it was about 3m in thickness in the vicinity of the entrance on the SE. In addition to this wall, which forms a continuous circuit, a concentric outer rampart has been drawn around the more accessible sides on the NE, SE and SW, though for the most part it has been reduced to little more than a stony scarp and on the ESE it has been obliterated by the construction of a later enclosure, probably part of a medieval or post-medieval farmstead, which rides up onto the inner rampart. The rocky interior is featureless.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 01 June 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC4093
