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Field Visit
Date February 1975
Event ID 1123844
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1123844
NS 952 220. This settlement occupies the end of a small promontory which projects from the lower SE slopes of Castle Hill, being flanked on the E by the Berries Burn and on the W by a wide marshy hollow. Lying only 85 m NE of the fort NS92SE 1, it consists of an incomplete enclosure which is bounded by a curvilinear bank and ditch and measures 43 m internally from N to S. The bank measures about 4.6m in average thickness and stands to a maximum height of 1.0m above the bottom of the shallow ditch. There is no suggestion that the bank and ditch were ever constructed on the E side, although it is possible that the settlement was originally enclosed by a palisade, which was in the course of being replaced by an earthwork when the occupation of the site came to an end (NT81NE 18); no surface indications of such a palisade can, however, be seen.
The interior contains traces of a single ring-ditch house measuring about 12.8m in diameter over all.
RCAHMS 1978, visited February 1975
