Note
Date 1983
Event ID 1154164
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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White Caterthun NO 547 660 NO56NW 17
This complex tort is situated on the summit of White Caterthun Hill about 700m SW of Brown Caterthun fort (no. 200). It is oval, measuring 140m by 61 m within two stone walls; the inner wall is massive and measures 12m in thickness by up to 3m in height,•
while the outer is 6m thick. Immediately outside the walls there is a rampart with an internal quarry-ditch. The entrance probably lay on the SE and the only features visible in the interior are an ancient well and a recent rectangular turf enclosure. At a distance of between 30m and 70m there is a further line of defence which, for the most part, comprises twin banks and medial ditch but on the N it is reduced to a single bank and ditch. There is an annexe on the E, and outside the outermost rampart on the NW there are traces of at least one interrupted ditch. Finds from the fort include leaf-shaped and barb and tanged arrowheads, a stone ball, and two bronze flanged axes. For cup-marks found in the fort see NO56NW 17, and unenclosed houses on the flanks of the hill are described under NO56NW 453 and NO56NW.43
RCAHMS 1983.
(Christison 1900, 103-5; Feachem 1977, 107).
