Field Visit
Date 24 July 1912
Event ID 1132964
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1132964
Fort, Ward Law.
The Wardlaw Hill, which rises to a height of 313 feet over sea level, overlooks the Castle of Caerlaverock, from which it is distant about 1 mile, and commands also a prospect over a great extent of surrounding country. It is surmounted by an oval fort ([plan] fig. 25) surrounded by a rampart of stone and earth, with a terrace or trench now filled in, before it, some 18 feet broad, having a mound on the outer edge or counterscarp. The enceinte has its longest axis north and south, measures some 210 feet by 180 feet, and rises in elevation towards the north. The rampart along the north arc at the edge of the interior is scarcely perceptible, but around the lower part of the periphery it the inner side, and a ramp some 8 feet in height to the terrace, which lies at a general level of 6 feet above the ground outside. There is an entrance from the west some 5 feet in width. On the north arc, in front of the highest point of the fort, and where the parapet is not observable, a slight mound is carried along the terrace some 15 feet out and 4 to 5 feet back from the edge, is brought forward to the edge as it passes eastward, and eventually merges in the inner mound beyond the prominence to the north on the east side.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 24 July 1912.
OS 6" map (Fort), Dumf., 2nd ed, (1900).
