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Field Visit

Date 17 August 1908

Event ID 1088394

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088394

90. Fort, Warlawbank.

This enclosure (fig. 52 [DP 228313]) is situated on the top of Horsley Hill, at an elevation of about 840 feet above sea-level and about 100 yards west of the farm of Warlawbank, and is surrounded by two parallel mounds, probably of earth, with a trench between supplemented by a third mound at the east end. The distance from the crest of the innermost to that of the middle rampart is about 40 feet, and from that of the middle to that of the outermost about 30 feet. The trench is still in places 5 to 6 feet deep. It is oval inform, measuring some 357 feet by 225 feet. The entrance is from the south-east. The surface has been frequently ploughed over.

See Antiquaries, xxix. p. 165; Ber·. Nat. Club, 1894-95, p. 374.

RCAHMS 1915, visited 17th August 1908.

OS Map: Ber., xi. NW.

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