Note
Date 1988
Event ID 1144954
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Hillend NT 2451 6621 NT26NW 20
This fort is situated on a knoll on the NE flank of Caerketton Hill. It measures about 70m by 50m internally, although all that is visible of its rampart is a low mound on the Wand N. On the W, the easiest line of approach, there is a stretch of outer ditch with an external bank set some 4m below the crest of the knoll. A 3m wide gap in the rampart on the N, now used by the modern path to the top of the knoll, may mark the position of an original entrance, but a natural hollow which runs up into the interior from the SE also provides good access. Traces of a possible timber house site about 5m in diameter can be seen at the Send of a rocky ridge that bisects the interior of the fort.
RCAHMS 1988
(RCAHMS 1929, 115-16, no. 143; RCAHMS Survey of Marginal Lands)
