Archaeology Notes

Event ID 720473

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT57SE 17 NT 57185 71557

(NT 5719 7157) Fort (NR) (site of)

OS 6" map (1969)

Fort, Whitelaw Hill: This circular fort, with double or possibly triple, ditches and an internal diameter of about 350ft, is evidenced by a cropmark on the hill summit (CPE/Scot/UK257: 3133-4).

RCAHMS Marginal Lands MS 1954

This fort has been completely ploughed out and no trace is now visible on the ground.

Surveyed at 1:2500 from RAF AP's.

Visited by OS (RD) 22 March 1965

Further aerial photographs of this fort have been taken by the RCAHMS in 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1994 and 1995. Also visible on CUCAP air photographs.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Scheduled as Whitelaw Hill, enclosure.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 20 June 1994.