Field Visit
Date 26 November 1928
Event ID 1115566
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Fort, Hillend Hill.
Just behind an old quarry on Hillend Hill and on the crest of a small spur of the Pentland Hills, which juts out from the base of Caerketton Hill at the north-east, there are some traces of a fort. These lie at an elevation of slightly over 1000 feet above sea level and enclose an area approximately 200 feet in diameter. The details are completely destroyed on the east side, but they are somewhat better preserved at the west and south-west, where a short section indicates that there had been at least two lines of defence about 12 feet apart. The outer line is at a level of about 8 feet lower than the inner line and roughly 15 feet higher than the level outside. These ramparts can also be traced around a portion of the northside, but the details are less clearly defined. In one portion of the inner defence, however, a row of fairly large stones, set edge to edge for a distance of about 35 feet, indicates that the defences were, in part at least, of stone. There are no very clear indications of an entrance, but it was possibly from the north.
RCAHMS 1929, visited 26 November 1928.
vii S.E. (unnoted).
