Field Visit
Date July 1970
Event ID 1123905
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1123905
NT 030 328. This settlement is situated on the steep NE slopes of Snaip Hill, overlooking the Culter Water from a height of 275m OD. It measures 53m by 46m within what was probably a boulder-faced rubble wall, but no facing stones are now visible, and what remains of the core material has spread to form a low grassy bank. The entrance, 3.7m wide, is on the NW; of the two other gaps in the bank, situated on the ENE and SE respectively, the former has been caused by a modern quarry and the latter by cultivation.
The interior, the level of which falls by 6m from SSW to NNE, contains a series of house-platforms disposed on different levels. (See RCAHMS 1978 plan, fig.44).
RCAHMS 1978, visited July 1970.
