Archaeology Notes

Event ID 660778

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH45NW 5 4114 5669.

(NH 4114 5669) Fort (NR)

OS 25" map, (1969)

On the summit of Carn na Buaile is a fort, oval on plan, measuring 27.0m ENE-WSW by c. 16.5m within a ruinous stone wall, best preserved in the E where it defends the easiest approach. Here inner and outer wall faces, maximum height two courses, are visible intermittently indicating a wall thickness of 3.3m. In the NW, W and S the wall has slipped down the slope. The entrance is in the SE and its S side is visible for c. 1.5m. The N side has collapsed but there are indications that the entrance passage was about 1.5m wide. Apart from a ruinous shepherd's cairn the interior is featureless.

Surveyed at 1:2500. (Visited by OS (A A) 24 November 1967)

Visited by OS (R L) 18 November 1970.