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Note
Date 18 February 2016 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1045356
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045356
First observed by Robert Kinghorn when it had already been largely ploughed down (1935, 164-5, fig 5), the site of this fort has subsequently been revealed by cropmarks, occupying a low hillock on a SW-facing hillside SE of Greenfield. Although Kinghorn noted only a traces of a single rampart, the cropmarks show that the defences were bivallate, with two concentric ditches set between 5m and 7m apart. Both are in excess of 4m in breadth and they enclose an oval area measuring 72m from ESE to WNW by 55m transversely (0.3ha); allowing for the presence of an inner rampart, the interior enclosed about 0.23ha. This is a little smaller than the figure of '79 yards in diameter' (72m) measured by Kinghorn, probably from NW to SE, and suggests that the traces of the rampart that he observed lay between the two ditches. No clear evidence of structures can be discerned within the interior, and nor are there any clearly-defined causeways across the ditches, though an irregularity in the line of the inner on the N almost certainly indicates the presence of an entrance here or a little further E, a sector that is otherwise obscured by edge effects in the field and the old shelter belt adjacent.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC4120
