Note
Date 20 December 2013 - 23 May 2016
Event ID 1045408
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045408
This fort occupies the W end of ridge overlooking a relatively narrow gap through which the Water of Luce debouches onto the coastal plain. Oval on plan, it measures about 88m from E to W by 54m internally, though it is now heavily ploughed down and little trace of it is visible on the ground. Nevertheless, cropmarks have revealed no fewer than three ditches cutting across the spine of the ridge, forming a belt of defences on this side at least 40m deep, in which the innermost ditch is in the order of 10m in breadth. To what extent these defences were carried round the rest of the ridge is unclear; they would have been unnecessary around the southern flank, where the ground drops steeply to the haughland, but the inner rampart seems to have extended along the gentler N flank, where the cropmarks suggest there may also have been an entrance.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC0203
