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
