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Field Visit
Date May 1974
Event ID 674772
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/674772
NM 545 565. This fort is situated on a T-shaped coastal promontory, which is almost completely cut off from the adjacent mainland at high spring tides. The defences consist of a single stone wall drawn across low-lying ground between the two rocky ridges that flank the NW tip of the promontory, and which rise to an average height of 4.5m above the shore; the roughly rhomboidal area thus defined measures about 50m by 40m. Now reduced to a heavy band of rubble 3m in average thickness and up to 0.8m high, the wall has incorporated several rock outcrops in its outer face, the lowest course of which can still be seen at several points; no inner facing-stones are visible. The entrance, measuring approximately 1.7m in width, is situated towards the N end of the wall; a small enclosure of recent date has been built over the ruins of the wall on the S. Apart from a number of rock outcrops, the interior is featureless.
RCAHMS 1980, visited May 1974
