Note
Date 23 May 2014 - 23 May 2016
Event ID 1045567
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045567
This fort is situated on the northern end of an elongated hillock on the W side of the River Annan. Faint traces of the outermost defences are visible on the SW, but otherwise the fort is only known from cropmarks, which reveal that it is circular on plan, measuring about 75m in diameter within a belt of four concentric ditches some 30m deep, though the breadths and spacing of the ditches suggest that the inner and outer pairs may belong to separate schemes of defence. While the inner pair are about 3m in breadth and set some 5m apart, on the S the the outer pair are between 4m and 5m in breadth and 8m apart. Around the S there are traces of another narrow line concentrically placed within the innermost ditch, either representing a palisade trench or the rear of the innermost rampart; allowing about 5m for the thickness of this rampart, the interior would have been in the order of 0.34ha in extent and there are traces of at least one round-house on its W side. However, if the outer pair represented a freestanding fortification, this would have measured about 100m in internal diameter and enclosed a much larger area of about 0.78ha. The entrance through both sets of defences is on the E.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC0869
