Archaeology Notes

Event ID 687829

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO35NE 6 3615 5681.

(NO 361 568) The remains of a fort occupying the summit of Castle Hill, a high elongated ridge with low precipices on the north and south. Twenty metres NE of the small modern cairn which occupies the site of the old trig point there is a distinct curving stony bank 3.5m wide, o.5m high internally and 1m high externally. It stops 1m short of the south edge of the ridge, which may indicate an entrance.

About 3.0m beyond this wall, and NE of the cairn is a short couse of large boulders, probably the remains of a wall.

Fifty seven metres SW of the cairn, and a little below the crest of the ridge is the possible course of another wall, a scatter of embedded stones running north-south across the ridge,its scarp slope dropping naturally to the west from 1m on the south to 3m on the north. The possible course of another wall lies across the ridge 14m to the east but it is too indefinite to be certain.

Slight circular depressions about 3m in diameter, beside the fragment of wall NE of the cairn may be the last vestiges of hut circles.

A J Warden 1880-5; A Reid 1909; Information from F T Wainwright 28 May 1958.

NO 3615 5681. This fort is generally as described in the report of 25 September 1958. The area has been disturbed by former tree planting and it seems likely that the circular depressions and the 'short course of large boulders' at the NE of the fort are a result of this disturbance.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS 25 September 1958 and 12 January 1977.