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Field Visit
Date 29 August 1953
Event ID 1103459
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1103459
(NO 170 259) Iron Age contour hill fort, 600 feet by 446 feet, with two external hut circles (A and B), 18 feet and 40 feet respectively, protected by steep natural slopes on all sides except the north. Here there are three ramparts. The innermost seems to have a foundation of stone and facing stones on each side. The entrance lies immediately east of the triple rampart and runs in along the rocky edge towards the east. Beyond the walls, on the easy north slope, are many placed stones forming a chevaux de frise. North of these were two further banks, now levelled, but there was no sign of ditch here. Some one hundred yards west of the entrance there seems to have been a waterhole which is still swampy and rush-grown. At the highest point of the hill is a mound or tumulus, 27 feet across. Its outline is indistinct but it seems to have been made up,at least on the west side.
R R B Watson 1929; Information from M E C Stewart 29 August 1953.
