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This survey was undertaken to document an unusual large enclosure, possibly defined by a palisade, noted from aerial photographs. The enclosure and surrounding area was surveyed by RCAHMS using GPS at a scale of 1:2500. Visited by Dave Cowley, Strat Halliday, Alex Hale, Ian Parker and Julie Candy [19th, 20th, 21st February and March 28th 2002].
This site, which crowns White Hill, the highest point of a narrow, steep-sided ridge, is a fort whose principle lines of enclosure have been timber palisades. These have been supplemented on the shallower slopes around the E, N and W by a dump rampart on which the palisade probably ran, and an external ditch. There is no reason from the visible earthworks to assume that this is an unfinished work and the 'marker trenches' identified previously are elements of the palisaded enclosures. Two linear earthworks on the nose of the ridge to the W of the fort cut across the easiest line of approach from the valley below. The innermost (IIB) forms part of a large enclosure (NT03SE 39) that takes in the greater part of White Hill. Two braided hollow trackways lead up the W end of White Hill; one runs through a gap in the innermost of the linear earthworks, while the other appears to be overlain by it. [...]
