Archaeology Notes

Event ID 717176

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT45SW 4 4005 5188.

(NT 4005 5188) Halltree Rings (NAT) Fort (NR)

OS 6" map (1970)

Halltree Rings, a fort (R W Feachem 1963) or settlement (R W Feachem 1965) on the summit of a ridge, is circular on plan, 260' in diameter within a single heavy rampart with an external quarry ditch, the entrance being in the W. At best the rampart rises 10' above the ditch. No traces of buildings are visible on the ground in the interior, which has been ploughed, but it is very likely that the post-holes of timber-framed houses exist under the turf.

RCAHMS 1929, visited 1913

A settlement on the top of a gently sloping ridge. On the NW are a well-preserved ditch and rampart while on the SE only the rampart survives, generally as a prominent scarp some 1.5m high. The strength and situation of this feature point to it being a settlement rather than a fort. It is otherwise as described.

Visited by OS (BS) 11 August 1975

Photographed by the RCAHMS in 1980 (listed as a fort).

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Halltree Rings, Chapel Hill: scheduled as settlement).

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 10 October 1995.