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Field Visit
Date 8 June 1925
Event ID 1098587
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1098587
This fort, which stands on the crest of a ridge about 400 yards north-east of Walton Cottages, at anelevation of rather more than 250 feet above sea-level, is now much destroyed, particularly on the east side, where the defences have been almost entirely obliterated. The site is thinly planted with trees, and a portion of the enclosure is occupied by the vault of the Crawford family. The outline of the fort has apparently been defined by a scarp and seems to have been roughly oval or pear-shaped in form, the major axis lying north-east and south-west. The interior area has been defined on the west by a low glacis, below which it has been girt by two concentric ramparts. Owing to the steepness with which the ground rises, the top of the glacis is about 4 ½ feet higher than that of the inner rampart, while the top of the innet rampart is in turn 4 ½ feet higher than that of the outer one. There are also clear indications of a ditch outside, but the position of the entrance is uncertain, although it was probably at the north-west, as suggested on the plan. On the north, where only one line of rampart, probably the outer one, can now be clearly followed, there is a mound (which is possibly not original) at about the place where the inner rampart would be looked for. Overall, the fort measures about 420 by 375 feet.
"Many urns and bones," says the New Statistical Account, ix, p. 565, "have been dug up on and near this hill."
RCAHSMS 1933, visited 8 June 1925.
