Field Visit
Date 17 August 1908
Event ID 1088190
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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17. Fort, Dogbush Plantation.
About 120 yards distant from the north-east end of Dogbush plantation, and about ½ mile north of Marygold farm-steading, at an elevation of some 820 feet above sea-level, is an enclosure (fig. 4 [DP 255499]) which crosses the plantation and emerges slightly on either side. It is oval in form, measuring over all some 510 feet by 390 feet, and is surrounded by a single rampart of earth and stone with a trench to the outside. The defences on the south west, from the crest of the rampart to that of the counterscarp of the trench, measure 22 feet across, while the bottom of the trench at deepest lies some 6 feet below the crest of the mound. The entrances are uncertain.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 17 August 1908.
See Antiquaries, xxix. p. 165; Ber. Nat. Club, 1894-95, p. 372 (secs.); Christison, p. 354.
OS Map: Ber., x. NE.
