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Field Visit
Date 22 May 1913
Event ID 1087320
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1087320
This fort (fig. 70 [plan]), 150 yards south-west of Garvald Mains, on the 600 feet contour line, occupies the summit of a plateau projecting from the high ground to the east of the Papana Water, which flows past on the south-west 150 feet below. On the south and west the ground falls in a very steep declivity to the haugh on the right bank of the burn. Roughly circular. in plan the enclosure measures 280 feet long by 240 feet broad internally. The hill top has been scarped all round. A broad stone wall, plundered for building material, I6 feet wide at the foundation and rising 5 feet above the inner level and 11 feet above the outer level, is seen on the eastern side and has been carried along the north, but this part is much destroyed and can be seen only in places, where it shows a breadth of 3 feet and a height of 1 foot above the level of the interior. On the western side facing the burn a terrace 12 feet wide has been cut on the steep natural escarpment 9 ½ feet below the interior level. There is an entrance 12 feet wide in the south-eastern arc.
RCAHMS 1924, visited 22 May 1913.
