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Field Visit
Date 23 July 1912
Event ID 1132121
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1132121
Fort, Broomhill Bank Hill.
Some 260 yards to the north-east of the last [NY19SW 7] is another fort on the summit of the hill, at an elevation of some 871 feet over sea-level, not visible from its neighbour and commanding a great prospect in all directions. The inclination from the direction of the last fort is slight, but on the west and north the hill falls sharply away. The enceinte is oval in form, lying with its main axis north and south, measures in diameter 190 feet by 170 feet, and is surrounded by a slight parapet mound and a trench partially cut through rock, at most some 6 feet deep and 28 feet wide, with a mound on the counterscarp varying in height as the level beyond rises or falls. There are two entrances, one on the east side of indefinite width overlooking the steep slope to the base of the hill, and the other on the west side, some 10 feet wide, from the direction of the other fort. The interior, which has not been hollowed, rises at the centre 5 to 6 feet above the level of the entrances.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 23 July 1912.
OS 6" map, Dumf., 2nd ed, (1900).
