Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 562625
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/562625
Cropmarks on aerial photographs record a ploughed down Iron Age fort situated on a terrace beside the River Tweed some 200m south-east of Springhill.
The fort is oval on plan, measuring about 65m by 50m within three broad ditches, each of which would have been accompanied by a rampart. Other cropmarks on the photographs reveal a ditch to the north-east, which may be an outwork of the fort, that cuts across an enclosure about 25m square. Other cropmarks disposed in a line along the leading edge of the terrace are quarries, presumably for sand and gravel, which postdate the fort.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
