Note
Date 20 December 2013 - 9 August 2016
Event ID 1045451
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045451
This small fortification occupies a rocky hillock at the top of the slope dropping down E into a shallow valley. Roughly circular on plan, it measures about 28m in diameter within a stony rampart which extends round the margin of the hillock. A steep scarp drops down some 3m below this rampart everywhere except the E, and at its foot around the southern and western quarters, from the SE round to the NNW, there is a shallow ditch about 4m broad with a bank of rubble along its counterscarp. The position of the entrance is not known though it may be indicated either by a row of stones observed by RCAHMS investigators in 1911 returning around the terminal of the ditch on the NNW, or the traces a trackway they noted climbing the slope on the E (RCAHMS 1914, 182, no. 339). The interior of the fort, which rises to a low summit within the line of the rampart. has been mutilated by quarrying.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 09 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC0239
