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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 716248
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/716248
NT45SE 9 4979 5466.
(NT 4979 5466) Fort (NR) (remains of)
OS 6" map (1970)
The remains of this fort are situated at the N end of a high ridge. It has been oval on plan measuring about 350' by 210'. At the SE end three broad ramparts are visible and two ramparts are traceable as terraces at the NW end. Elsewhere the defences are obliterated.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 1909
The remains of this fort are practically ploughed out but a short stretch of the inner rampart, 0.4m high, and a short stretch of the medial rampart, 0.2m high, survive on the E.
Visited by OS (BS) 6 August 1975
