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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 715272
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/715272
NT45SW 6 4190 5140.
(NT 4190 5140) Hodge Cairn (NAT) Fort (NR)
OS 6" map (1970)
Hodge Cairn: This fort (R W Feachem 1963) or settlement (R Feachem 1965) is oval, measuring 400' by 250' within two concentric ramparts some 40' apart with a medial ditch, the inner rampart standing up to 15' above the ditch. The entrance is in the NE. The interior is featureless.
RCAHMS 1929
The remains of this fort, much destroyed by quarrying and tree-felling, are as described. The inner rampart is best preserved on the N where it has an external height of 3.7m and an internal height of 1.2m; here, the outer rampart is 0.8m above the bottom of the medial ditch. The interior of the fort, rising about 0.3m above the inner rampart, is covered by old quarry-holes and uprooted tree stumps.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 4 January 1965
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (BS) 11 August 1975
