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Field Visit
Date June 1970
Event ID 1124164
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1124164
NT 022 330. Fort, Culterpark Hill; the remains of a bivallate fort, measuring 67m by 33m internally, occupy the summit of Culterpark Hill (292m OD). The site is protected on the SE by a long slope falling steeply to the valley floor, but is easily approached from all other directions.
The inner rampart appears for the most part as a grassy bank measuring up to 4.0m in height above the ditch and not more than 0.5m internally; one stone embedded in the bank on the NW suggests that it may have been stone-revetted externally. The outer rampart has been severely damaged by cultivation. On the ENE, where it is best preserved, it rises only 0.3m above the ditch and 0.6m above the ground outside. Elsewhere, it has been reduced to a low scarp or completely destroyed, and on the SE only a crest line indicates it approximate position. The entrance through both ramparts is on the SW. Ploughing has encroached over the whole of the interior. (See RCAHMS 1978 plan, fig.56).
RCAHMS 1978, visited June 1970.
