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Archaeology Notes
Date - 1970
Event ID 695983
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/695983
NR89NE 9 8598 9587
(NR 8600 9588) Fort (NR)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
A light wall, enclosing an area 130' x 100', on the highest point of a narrow, rocky ridge.
The grass-grown debris suggests that the wall has been continuous on the W, N, apart from the entrance in the E, and in spite of the precipitous nature of the terrain. On the S, however, the wall appears only at one point, the rest of this arc being defended by cliffs.
The interior is turf-covered and almost level apart from a rocky terrace on the N.
D Christison 1904; M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.
On the highest point of a narrow rocky ridge is a fort measuring 40.0m NE-SW x 10.0m. The defences consist of two rubble walls across the SW neck of the ridge, but elsewhere steep natural rock faces appear to suffice although there are slight traces of a wall at the N end.
A slight wall on a lower terrace to the E may be contemporary, forming a annexe to the fort.
The interior is featureless but the entrance has almost certainly been in the NE.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (RD), 24 March 1970.
