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Note
Date 20 December 2013 - 31 August 2016
Event ID 1045550
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045550
The defences of this fort, which occupies the summit of a hill used in the 15th century as one of a chain of beacons along Nithsdale (RCAHMS 1920, xxxiv), comprises at least two stone ramparts, both now heavily dilapidated and grass-grown, in which pieces of vitrifaction have been found. Set about 28m apart, the inner, now little more than a stony scarp 0.3m high around the S half, encloses an oval area measuring about 120m from NW to SE by 95m transversely (1ha); the outer, which forms a bank up to 2m thick by 0.5m high, doubles the enclosed area to about 2ha. In addition, satellite imagery currently available reveals a third bank a further 60m down the slope in the NW quadrant, which projected concentrically round the rest of the circuit hints at the presence of a much larger enclosure of up to 6ha on this hilltop. No features have been noted in the interior of the fort, and the only evidence of an entrance is a narrow gap in both ramparts observed on the SE by Euan MacKie (1975, 46).
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC0336
