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Archaeology Notes
Date 1977
Event ID 698544
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/698544
NS02NE 1 0560 2827
(NS 0560 2826) Fort (NR)
OS 6" map, (1924).
See also NS02NE 3.
The 'fort' at Kingscross is almost circular, measuring about 35ft in diameter within a wall 12 1/2ft thick, made of large inner and outer facing stones, the space between being rubble filled. Generally, only the foundations remain; the maximum height of walling being 5 1/2ft. The area enclosed, excavated by Balfour, is very irregular; the base of the wall at the S end is 5ft higher than at the N. Balfour found hearths, charcoal, bone fragments, a glazed stone and pieces of haematite iron. A considerable amount of red sandstone, a type of rock not obtainable locally, was used in the wall construction.
Source: J Balfour 1910.
NS 0560 2827. The remains of a dun occupy the N end of a rocky knoll above Kingscross Point. It is sub-circular, 19.0m in overall diameter and has walling as described above. The inner face of the W side has four courses and is 1.3m high. The entrance was probably on the N side but a pathway running N-S through the dun has denuded this point. The E half of the interior is on sloping bed-rock and the W part appears artificially heightened and levelled with earth. A scarped 'trench' 1.2m deep around the internal W arc appears an original feature but it is probably the result of excavations.
Re-surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J R L) 13 November 1977.
