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Field Visit
Date February 1975
Event ID 1123882
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1123882
NS 945 215. This settlement is situated at 290m OD, on an isolated knoll at the foot of Richie Ferry, overlooking the flat-bottomed valley of the River Clyde. It measures 85m by 43m within what was a single bank of earth and stone, now reduced to a mere scarp for most of the S half of its perimeter, but on the N measuring up to 6.0m thick and 0.8m high. Immediately inside the bank on the N the margin of the summit area has been heavily quarried, doubtless to provide material for the enclosing bank. There are four entrances, all apparently original, one situated at each end of the settlement, and one near the middle of each of the long sides. The interior contains traces of eight round timber houses, five of which are indicated by low crescentic scarps and three by segments of an enclosing ring-ditch.
RCAHMS 1978, visited February 1975
