Archaeology Notes
Date - 1977
Event ID 697309
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NR89NW 20 8147 9801
(NR 8148 9800) Fort (NR)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
A fort, one of the local types of defensive enclosure (Feachem 1963), situated on a rocky knoll, its E side resting on the edge of a cliff. It is oval in plan measuring 114' by 50' within a wall originally about 12' thick. The interior is flat and grassy. The site overlooks the Kilmartin valley and old and new cultivation lie nearby.
The walls between the knolls on Christison's (1904) plan were thought by him to be modern.
D Christison 1904; R W Feachem 1963; M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.
As described. Below the N end of the fort is a small annexe possibly associated with it.
Surveyed at 1:10,000 scale.
Visited by OS (W D J) 17 March 1970.
NR 8147 9801. A fort generally as desceibed in the previous information. The walling now only remains on the N and W where it is visible as a grass-covered band of stone 4.5m wide and up to 0.8m high. there is an entrance 1.5m wide in the west. Below the fort on the N is a natural terrace. This has a few facing stones visible around its edge and was almost certainly used as an annexe. To the W of the fort is a level field, with rig and furrow, partially enclosed by a relatively modern field wall. There is no trace of any earlier cultivation in the vicinity.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (B S), 13 April 1977.
