Field Visit
Date 17 October 1908
Event ID 1088205
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088205
29. Fort, Bowerhouse.
Situated about 1/3 mile west-north-west of the farm-steading of Bowerhouse, at an elevation of 1000 feet above the sea, enclosed, and planted with trees, is a fort (fig. 11), oval in form, measuring 270 feet by 170 feet, contained within two concentric mounds measuring 26 feet from crest to crest, and separated by a trench. The inner mound, at its highest point towards the northwest, is about 6 feet high to the outside, the outer one considerably less. The ramparts are of earth and stone. There is an entrance towards the north-east, which may, however, be secondary. Where the outer rampart on the north side has been situated in the adjacent field, it has been entirely ploughed down. The interior is rocky, and has suffered from quarrying.
See Antiquaries, xxix. p. 136; History of Channelkirk, p. 656.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 17 October 1908.
OS Map: Ber., xiii. SE
