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Field Visit
Date 19 July 1990
Event ID 1150206
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1150206
NY 1197 9217 NY19SW 6
Situated at the top of the S bank of a steep-sided stream-gully, there are the remains of a fort and later settlement.
Roughly D-shaped on plan, the fort originally measured about 100m from NW to SE by 50m transversely within double ramparts (up to 6m thick and 1.5m high) and ditches (up to 9m broad and 1m deep), but since its depiction in 1861 on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire, sheet 34), the W half of the site has been ploughed down.
The later settlement is situated within the surviving E half of the fort, making use of the SE arc of the earlier defences and the entrance. Oval on plan, it measures about 37m from NE to SW by 23m transversely within a wall reduced to a grass-grown stony bank up to 5m thick and 0.5m high; there is a possible second entrance on the NNE. A number of low scarps in the interior, including two which cut into the base of the earlier rampart on the E, may mark the positions of timber houses.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 19 July 1990.
Listed as fort and settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
