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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 687973

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/687973

NO33NE 3 3543 3975.

(NO 3543 3975) Fort (NR)

OS 6" map, (1971)

A fort occupying a plateau slightly below the crest of Auchterhouse Hill.

The plateau is precipitous on the south and west and is defended on the east and SE by a set of five ramparts with medial ditches, the ramparts reaching a maximum height of 1.5m above the base of the ditch. There are possible traces of a single stone wall running round the north and NW.

Internally the fort is covered with trees, the southern half being occupied by a high natural knoll.

At NO 3545 3984 on the edge of the steep north slope is a possible cairn 5.0m in diameter consisting of a continuous circle, of large stones embedded in the ground. The interior is filled with stone to a height of 0.2m.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Statistical Account (OSA) 1794; Visited by OS (E G C) 14 December 1967.

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