Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 620631

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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A narrow headland projecting from the cliffs. The defensive system is two banks crossing the isthmus at the inner end with a series of banks and ditches outside. Entrance path is central; on S side of it the outer system comprises 4 scooped out ditches with 3 intervening banks, on N side 2 ditches with 1 rampart between. The ramparts are partly built of turf and stand up to 2.5m above ditch bottoms. Site overgrown and no structures are visible within the fort. Lamb 1980 p50 and 77

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]