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Field Visit
Date 28 November 1995
Event ID 1150250
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1150250
NY 2240 8116 NY28SW 5
A brief visit to this settlement revealed evidence of a complex sequence of occupation, even though the W arc of the perimeter has been almost ploughed-out, and the SW third of the interior has been under cultivation too. The entrance on the NE opens into a deeply hollowed track leading up into the interior. To the NW of the track there are at least three ring-ditch houses, representing at least two periods of occupation. The northernmost of the three houses overlies a palisade trench, and there are also traces of a second palisade trench outside this line immediately W of the entrance through the enclosing earthwork. This outer palisade trench is cut by the internal quarry-scoop at the rear of the rampart, and it is likely that the quarry-scoop also cuts the ring-ditch house overlying the inner palisade. The course of the palisade trench to the SE of the entrance trackway is uncertain, although there are traces of a low scarp immediately within the rampart on the E. At least two ring-ditch houses are visible within this part of the interior.
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH, ARG), 28 November 1995.
Listed as defended settlements and palisades.
RCAHMS 1997.
