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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 682271
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/682271
NO12SW 189 11490 20106
Air photography (John Dewar 1975; RCAHMSAP 1978, 1984 and 1989) has recorded the cropmarks of a fort on a spur at the foot of the SE flank of Hilton Hill. The summit of the spur is occupied by a modern house and its garden, and the steep natural slopes on the E, S and W are wooded. On the N, the easiest line of approach, the cropmarks of at least five concentric ditches can be seen on aerial photographs; the ditches, which measure up to 3m in breadth, are broken by a well-defined entrance on the NW, and the two outermost appear to terminate short of the wood on the NE.
At the date of visit it was not possible to obtain access to the wooded slopes of the spur, and it is not known whether any trace of the defences may be discerned on these parts of the circuit.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 10 December 1997.
