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Field Visit
Date 1945
Event ID 1117947
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1117947
Earthwork 'D' runs downhill, a little E of N, from the E end of 'C' (see NT71SE 10) to near Peelinick; its length is approximately 760 yds. It consists of a bank, 10' - 12' thick at the base and showing traces of stones here and there in its face, with a ditch up to 5' wide on its E or downhill side. Owing to the steepness of the slope on the lip of which it stands, the top of the bank rises in places as much as 6' above the bottom of the ditch. The position of the bank on the W side of the ditch suggests that this work may have been intended to prevent the egress of animals from Dormount Hope, but there is a gap of about a quarter of a mile between the S end of 'D' and earthwork NT81SW , which breaks the continuity of a hypothetical enclosure-wall. Notwithstanding Mack's statement (J L Mack 1924) that there is in this stretch "clear evidence of yet another wall (possibly of turf)", there is actually no trace of anything beyond the deeply worn hollows of the old road, the ridges between which do in places superficially resemble a turf mound.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1945.
