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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 717213
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/717213
NT34SW 6 3001 4049.
(NT 3001 4049) Earthwork (NR)
OS 6" map (1964)
An enclosure is situated on the summit of Bught Hill. Extensive surface-quarrying has virtually obliterated its outline, but faint traces remain of a slight stony bank, up to 8' in thickness and not more than 1'6" in height, which encloses a roughly circular area measuring 170' in diameter. There is no indication of an entrance. The surface of the interior is very uneven owing to numerous quarry-pits, but two scooped platforms, situated just inside the bank on the N side, and each measuring 25' across, may possibly mark the sites of timber houses. (Information from A McLaren notebook 1, 8)
RCAHMS 1967, visited 1960
The wasted remains of an oval enclosure comprising a single bank no more than 0.5m high. There are indications of a second (and outer) bank on the S side.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (EGC) 3 February 1966
