Note
Date 20 December 2013 - 23 May 2016
Event ID 1045537
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045537
This small fortification occupies a rocky hillock on the S spur of Grennan Hill at the top of a long slope falling away steeply on the SW down to the Scar Water about 100m below. On the NW, where the top of the hillock stands between 3.5m and 4m above the surrounding ground, the defences comprise a massive rock-cut ditch up to 11.5m in breadth by 3.5m in depth, which is accompanied by both inner and outer ramparts about 0.8m in high. On the SW, however, the scale of the defences contracts to little more than a scarp dropping down into the ditch, which itself is little more than a terrace 2m in breadth cut into the slope some 5m below the crest of the hillock. In the SE quadrant, where its line is taken up by a vertical cliff-face 5m high, there is no evidence of any additional defences. The entrance lies on the E, and is formed between the return of the ramparts around the terminal of the ditch on the N side and the rock-face extending round the SE flank; it is approached obliquely by a shallow hollowed trackway. The oval interior, which measures about 46m from NW to SE by 24m transversely (0.09ha), contains at least two possible house platforms about 5m in diameter.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC0324
