Field Visit
Date 30 June 1990
Event ID 1150271
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1150271
NT 0681 0800 NT00NE 6
This settlement is situated on the edge of a natural terrace on the E flank of Muckle Hill. Oval on plan, it measures 47m from E to W by 46m transversely within a grass-covered earth-and-stone bank (spread to 5.1m in thickness, 0.2m in height internally and 0.6m in height externally). The bank, reduced to no more than a scarp on the SW and N, has been created by scooping out the interior of the enclosure around a natural, irregular rise. The entrance may have been on the S. In the interior there are a number of possible house-stances, the best preserved of which lies on the W and measures 6m in diameter. On the NW of the interior a rectangular depression (12.5m from SSW to NNE by 5m transversely) marks the position of an enclosure or building.
Visited by RCAHMS (SMF), 30 July 1990.
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
