Archaeology Notes

Event ID 696374

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR75SW 7 7407 5479.

(NR 7408 5480) Fort (NR)

OS 6" map, (1924)

This fort, occupying the summit of an isolated rocky knoll, measures 24.5m x 18.5m within a 6.1m thick wall, now reduced to a grass-covered stony bank, not more than 1.0m high. A number of facing stones are visible in situ as shown in plan. A subsidiary crest line, traceable all round the knoll except on the W, may represent the edge of a terrace made as a seating for the outer face of the wall. The exceptional wall thickness would allow for mural chambers and galleries but no trace of such structures are now visible. The entrance is in the E. A D-shaped enclosure, formed by a low bank, and measuring 27.5m x 9m internally is situated at the base of the knoll, immediately SE of the entrance. Without excavation it is impossible to assess its relationship to the fort.

RCAHMS 1971, visited 1961.

A dun, measuring 17.5m NE-SW by 9.0m within a wall up to 4.0m thick. Otherwise as described by RCAHMS.

Surveyed at 1:10,000

Visited by OS (D W R) 13 August 1973.

Dun: NR 740 547. From mole disturbance on interior of dun, bones, mica schist polisher (or lid?) and translucent green glass dumb-bell bead.

L Masters and E Peltenburg 1979.