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Field Visit

Date 7 August 1908

Event ID 1088384

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088384

79. Fort, Oatlee Hill.

At the south-east end of Oatlee Hill, at an elevation of 500 feet above the sea, and some 750 yards north-west of Westerside farm, is a small irregularly oblong enclosure (fig. 41 [DP 225488]) with its longest axis north-west and south-east, and surrounded by a single rampart of earth and stone about 19 feet wide at base and some 3 feet high. The interior area measures some 100 feet by 85 feet. The entrance is on the west side. At 28 feet southeast from the west corner the foundation of a wall runs at right angles to the rampart into the enclosure for a distance of 36 feet. On a platform in the north corner is a circular depression with a diameter of 29 feet and an entrance to the south, and to the south-east of it, abutting on the north-east rampart, another with an interior diameter of 12 feet.

RCAHMS 1915, visited 7th August 1908.

OS Map: Ber., v. NE. and vi. NW.

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