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Note
Date 20 December 2013 - 23 May 2016
Event ID 1045414
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045414
This hilltop enclosure, which takes in the whole summit of Bargain Hill, has a relatively slight perimeter, where best preserved around the SW quarter comprising no more than a low bank 3m thick by 0.3m high, fronted by an external ditch about 2.8m broad and traces of a low counterscarp bank. On the WNW and SE only the line of the bank can be traced, forming a scarp about 0.6m high, and even this disappears around the NE quarter. Three boulders are set at the foot of the scarp on the ESE, but if these belong to a face or revetment there is no trace of such a feature elsewhere. The entrance may have been on the SSW. The interior, which measures about 90m from NE to SW by 78m transversely (0.5ha) is featureless, though in 1954 K Steer suggested a small water-filled hollow might be artificial.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC0208
