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Field Visit
Date May 1971
Event ID 1170606
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1170606
NM 079 585. On the summit of the more northerly of the two rocky bosses known as Cnocan Dubha, immediately N of the village of East Laroch, there are the tenuous remains of a stone-walled fort. The boss, which rises to a height of about18 m above the surrounding coastal plain, is protected on the NE and SE by sheer rock-faces, but elsewhere, apart from a low crescentic scarp on the S, the immediate approach is over a grassy incline of only moderate steepness.
Although no trace of any defences can now be seen on the E half of the perimeter, it is probable that the fort, which measures internally about 36 m from E to W by 27 m transversely, was originally defended by a continuous wall drawn round the irregular outline of the summit area, with an outwork restricting access on the more vulnerable W flank. The surviving portion of the main wall appears as a low grass-grown spread of core material, 0.6 m to 2.4 m wide, in which no inner or outer facing-stones are now visible. A similar band of debris, although only 1.5 m in greatest width, indicates the course of the outer wall.
The entrance lay on the W, its position being marked by gaps in the inner wall and the outwork measuring 1.8 m and 5.1 m in width respectively. The interior is largely occupied by bare rock.
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1971.
