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Field Visit
Date 17 July 1990
Event ID 1150205
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1150205
NY 1170 9145 NY19SW 4
This earthwork is situated on a promontory above the confluence of two burns on the NW flank of Longerhallis Hill. It is now obscured by a mature forestry plantation and this account is largely based on earlier descriptions.
The defences may belong to two periods: one represented by an arc of bank (6.4m thick and 1m high) and external ditch (4.3m wide and up to 0.3m deep) drawn across the neck of the promontory, and the other by twin banks (up to 3.8m thick and 0.5m high) and ditches (up to 2.6m wide) running roughly parallel to, but within the line of, the outer bank.
The two circular 'huts' (measuring 9m and 11m in diameter respectively) that were noted by OS surveyors (in 1972) within the interior could not be located on the date of visit.
Visited by RCAHMS (SMF), 17 July 1990 .
Listed as fort.
RCAHMS 1997.
