Note

Date 3 April 2017

Event ID 1108041

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1108041

This small fortification is situated on the summit of the Hill of Airlie, in a clearing in the plantation that has clothed its upper slopes since the early 19th century. Roughly circular on plan, the principal defence is a wall reduced to a mound of rubble between 5m and 8m in thickness by up to 1m in height, which encloses an area some 45m in diameter (0.16ha); a few inner and outer facing-stones are visible on the W quarter, though in insufficient numbers to measure the thickness, and the entrance is on the ESE. Within the interior the ground rises into a low summit, and the stony scarp that defines its margin is possibly the remains of a heavily robbed wall enclosing an area measuring 31m across (0.08ha); while the relationship between the two walls is unknown, the relatively poor state of preservation of the inner suggests that it may be the earlier. The only other feature visible within the interior is a cairn measuring about 8m from ESE to WSW by 6.5m transversely and 0.2m in height.

Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 03 April 2017. Atlas of Hillforts SC2955