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Archaeology Notes
Date 1977
Event ID 697270
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/697270
NS04NW 6 0172 4606.
(NS 0172 4606) Vitrified Fort (NR).
OS 1" map, (1960)
There is a vitrified fort at the point marked .129 on OS 6" plan. The inner of the two turf-covered stony ramparts encloses an oval area about 70 yds N-S by 50 yds transversely. The distance between the two ramparts is 4 yds to 6 yds, the outer rampart following the line of the inner. Excavations carried out on the ramparts at the S end showed that the inner rampart had been vitrified.
Source: V N Paton 1928.
This is a very flimsey structure for a fort, but vitrified stone certainly occurs on the site perhaps as evidence of a bloomery.
Source: J N G Ritchie 1973.
The remains of a vitrified fort situated on the crest of an east-facing tree-covered coastal slope. There are two concentric banks, around the north-west and south sides (now evident as stony scarps 1.0m high) and steep natural slopes on the east. The outer bank has a 15.0m long stretch of wall-facing visible on the north but nowhere can a "wall" width be determined.
The entrance is not evident but it was either in the east corner where both walls stop short of the natural slopes, or at the slight lowering of the banks on the west side.
Some vitrified material is exposed in the inner bank on the south west.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (B S) 1 December 1977.
