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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 719599
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/719599
NT66SE 1 6645 6315.
(NT 6645 6315) Camp (NR)
OS 6" map (1959)
Fort, Friar's Nose, Kilmade Burn: the existing well-preserved remains of a multivallate fort almost certainly represent works of two different periods, the latter involving almost a complete reforming and probable doubling of the older defences.
There are only two round stone huts visible on the site (against the inner rampart on the west side, near the NW entrance). The other 'huts' shown on the original RCAHMS plan are small groups of loose stones of no significance.
Ramparts A and C (see plan from RCAHMS Marginal Lands MS (1954), No.19) have been stone walls, D appears to be simply an upcast mound, while B, which is only present on the west side, is in a very wasted condition and may have belonged to an earlier system. The short length of rampart marked E on the sketch may have been part of this system. Early Iron Age.
RCAHMS 1924, visited 1920; R W Feachem 1963
The fort is generally as described and planned by the above authorities.
Visited by OS (RD) 25 April 1966
Photographed by the RCAHMS in 1980.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Visible on Ordnance Survey Air Photograph 65/99/045.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
