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Field Visit
Date 16 October 1908
Event ID 1088547
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088547
223. Fort, Tollis Hill.
Situated some 200 yards west of the shepherd's house on Tollis Hill and about 1200 feet over sea-level, is a circular fort (fig. 111 [DP 225411]) with an interior diameter of some 300 feet, surrounded by a single rampart and ditch with a low parapet on the. top of the counterscarp. The defences are well preserved towards the west and north, but somewhat dilapidated on the south-east. The rampart is probably of earth and stone. On the north, where best preserved, the crest of the rampart is from 12 to 13 feet above the bottom of the ditch and 3 to 4 feet above the level of the interior. The breadth of the ditch from crest of rampart to top of counterscarp is 29 feet. There is a well-preserved entrance on the west, 6 to 8 feet across the ditch, flanked on either side of the roadway by the parapet of the counterscarp brought round to junction with the rampart, and there is a second entrance, possibly original, on the north. The other entrances on the south and east are probably modern. In the interior there are considerable remains of circular foundations, some of which, from their size, may have been sheepfolds.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 16th October 1908.
OS Map: Ber., vii. SE.
