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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 714614
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/714614
NT33NE 18 3640 3590.
(NT 3640 3590) Fort (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1964)
This fort is situated on a rocky knoll which forms the northern end of the Bold Rig. The site is easily approached from the S along the level spine of the spur, but it is flanked on the E and the N by long steep slopes and on the W by a precipitous drop of over 200 ft.
The fort is D-shaped on plan, measuring about 220ft by about 140 ft. The chord is formed by the crest of the descent to the W and the arc by the remains of two ramparts which have been reduced by stone-robbing, quarrying and cultivation to intermittent scarps no more than 3ft.6in in maximum height. The entrance is in the NE. The interior, much disturbed by quarrying and covered with heather, contains a shallow semicircular scoop at the S end, measuring 20ft across, which probably represents a house-platform.
RCAHMS 1967, visited 1961
Although a fort undoubtedly existed here there are no longer any surveyable remains. (Visible on RAF AP's 1069/Scot/UK 18: 7151-2)
Visited by OS (WDJ) 5 July 1961 and (JP) 20 September 1974.
