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Field Visit
Date 28 March 2002
Event ID 1133765
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1133765
This site, which crowns White Hill, the highest point of a narrow, steep-sided ridge, is a fort whose principle lines of enclosure have been timber palisades. These have been supplemented on the shallower slopes around the E, N and W by a dump rampart on which the palisade probably ran, and an external ditch. There is no reason from the visible earthworks to assume that this is an unfinished work and the 'marker trenches' identified previously are elements of the palisaded enclosures. Two linear earthworks on the nose of the ridge to the W of the fort cut across the easiest line of approach from the valley below. The innermost (IIB) forms part of a large enclosure (NT03SE 39) that takes in the greater part of White Hill. Two braided hollow trackways lead up the W end of White Hill; one runs through a gap in the innermost of the linear earthworks, while the other appears to be overlain by it.
Limited field survey in the interior of the fort has identified several new elements. An additional palisaded enclosure is visible in the interior of the fort, predating the previously recognized palisade IA (RCAHMS 1967). In addition the stances of at least eight timber houses have been identified. One (NT 0555 3380) clearly overlies a palisade (IA), while another (NT 0551 3385) may be cut by it.
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 28 March 2002
