Field Visit
Date 10 August 1926
Event ID 1144364
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Fort, Bowden Hill
This fort occupies an extensive and prominent position on the boulder-strewn and irregular summit of Bowden Hill, about ½ mile almost due north of Lochcote Castle. The remains are situated at an elevation of over 700ft above sea-level, in a position of considerable natural strength, which has minimised the necessity for any elaborate system of defensive works for so large an area. A fairly definite line of defence, now grass-grown, but apparently the ruin of a dry-built wall of considerable strength, runs round the hillside on the north, and there is a clear break for an entrance in the only line of approach from the east. At all other points the hill rises steeply and, if defensive works formerly existed, their features have been obliterated. At the highest point of the hill one can detect, here and there, slight indications suggestive of further work, but these are too scanty to be followed continuously to any definite point.
RCAHMS 1929, visited 10 August 1926
OS 6-inch map: x.NW
