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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 679878
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/679878
NO01SW 18 02309 14317
A small multivallate fort, revealed by RCAMS aerial photography.
L Keppie 1980.
NO 022 143 A small axehead was found during fieldwalking in March 1997. This was the first recent opportunity to walk the field which was formerly under pasture. Possible samples of vitrification from the same field, from the upper slope occupied by the ploughed-out hillfort defences, is currently being examined. In 1981 the same field produced a socketed bronze axe (accession no. 1983.336). PMAG accession no. 1997.605.
M Hall 1998
N0 0231 1429 A short-notice pre-afforestation survey was undertaken of a small area of land adjacent to the known cropmark site of a multi-vallate fort (NMRS NO01SW 18). The purpose of the survey was to indicate the position of a series of quarries and other features within the proposed planting area, so as to determine how much of the fort might survive there.
A full report has been lodged with the NMRS.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland.
C Lowe 1999
The remains of this large multivallate fort have been recorded as a series of cropmarks. A survey was undertaken in the field to the S of the cropmarks to indicate the position of two quarries and a break in slope and to determine how much of the site would survive in this area. The relatively flat summit of the hill measures about 130m in length by up to 35m. It has been heavily planted in the past and a slight earthwork, possibly plantation-bank, 1m wide and up to 0.4m in height, was recorded on the W side.
C Lowe and M Dalland (Headland Archaeology) 30 November 1998; NMRS MS 899/146 appendix 1
