Archaeology Notes
Event ID 710801
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NT14NE 5 1561 4633.
(NT 15614633) Bordlands Rings (NAT) Fort (NR)
OS 6" map(1967)
Fort, Bordlands Rings. On the gently rounded summit of Bordlands Hill, there is a circular bivallate fort measuring internally 180ft in diameter. The inner rampart is represented by a bank 25ft thick at the base and 6ft high, while the outer rampart is of similar character but measures only 3ft in height. Former cultivation has removed the E and W sectors of the outer rampart, and may also have obliterated a medial ditch. The entrance, 12ft in width, is on the E. Apart from a comparatively modern quarry the interior is featureless.
(Information from R W Feachem notebook 1959, 14)
RCAHMS 1967, visited 1959
This earthwork which occupies a non-defensive position, is generally as described. Although there are no longer any traces of habitation due to surface quarrying it is probably a settlement.
Visited by OS (JTT) 31 August 1964 and (SFS) 14 October 1974
