Field Visit
Date 6 August 1912
Event ID 1132144
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Fort, Millbank.
This fort, which appears to be a pure earthwork, is situated on a gentle undulation about ¼ mile west-south-west of Millbank Farm, some 2 miles to the north of Lockerbie, and is enclosed and planted with trees. In plan it is circular, with a diameter of some 208 feet, surrounded by a single trench, 35 feet in width and with a depth, where best preserved, of 8 feet below the crests of the scarp and counterscarp. Crowning the scarp is a parapet mound some 18 feet in thickness at base and 3 to 4 feet in height on the interior, while a similar mound surmounts the counterscarp. Near the centre of the north side there is an entrance by a gangway 5 feet wide, crossing the trench at an elevation of 4 feet above the bottom level and carried through the parapet mound by a gap of equal width; there appears to have been a second entrance from the west, passing inwards at the level of the ground outside into a hollow at the lowest point of the interior. The inner circle of the enceinte has been preserved complete, but, except towards the north , the trench has passed into land now under cultivation and has suffered in consequence. The site, though at an elevation of only 250 feet, commands a fine prospect up Annandale.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 6 August 1912.
OS 6" map, Dumf., 2nd ed, (1900).
