Archaeology Notes

Event ID 677110

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN60SE 3 6575 0398.

(NN 6574 0398) Fort. Easter Torrie. Discovered 1956-8.

Visible on RAF air photograph 106G/Scot/UK/120: 3228-9 and OS 66/97/109, flown 1966.

RCAHMS 1963; 1996

NN 6575 0398 - This fort occupies the summit of a hill with steep slopes on the south and east but gradual elsewhere. It has been almost destroyed by cultivation but appears to have consisted of a rampart and ditch, the former at best reduced to a scarp 2.2m high, while only the outer rim of the ditch is discernible. The ditch has not been continuous, probably terminating at the edge of the south and east slopes of the hill. The entrance was either in the east or WSW side. The interior of the fort has also been under cultivation and is featureless. (For similar forts see NN60SW 8 and NN60NW 10).

Surveyed at 1/2500 and 1/10,000

Visited by OS (E G C) 9 October 1968.