Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Scheduled Maintenance Notice
Please be advised that this website will undergo scheduled maintenance starting on Thursday, 30th January at 11:00 AM and will last until Friday, 31st January at 10:00 AM.
During this time, the site and certain functions may be partially or fully unavailable. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Desk Based Assessment
Date 1954
Event ID 691641
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/691641
NO56NW 17 5473 6607 to 5467 6602.
(NO 5473 6607) Fort (NR) White Caterthun (NAT)
(NO 5467 6602) Cup Marked Stone (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1972).
An Iron Age fort consisting of a double stone wall, probably timber-laced, with earthen outer defences.
The inner wall, which probably measured about 40' in thickness, has an entrance on the SE, and encloses an area 500' by 220', in which are a well, probably contemporary with the fort, and a relatively modern, rectangular structure of turf. Feachem makes no mention of the "circular foundations", noted by King, within the fort.
Immediately outside the outer stone wall is a low rampart with an internal quarry ditch, while at distances varying from 100' to 230' outside this are the remains of two ramparts with an annexe on the NE. Traces of two additional, probably incomplete, ramparts, unnoted by Christison, lie to the NW.
While there is no evidence to show that the various defences represent more than one period, finds include a flint knife, a stone macehead (both in the NMAS) leaf-shaped and barbed-and-tanged arrowheads, a carved stone ball, two bronze flanged axes and "gold medals", one of which bore, on one side, the letter "B R E" round a head, and, on the other, "L C S A T D" around the figure of a bird.
A broken cup marked stone lies on the west side of the fort, between the outer stone wall and the inner earthen rampart.
Information from F A Ferguson January 1954.
(R W Feachem 1963; D Christison 1900; E King 1799; NMAS Accessions catalogue)
