Archaeology Notes
Date - 1967
Event ID 720842
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/720842
NT62SW 1 62410 24910.
(NT 6241 2491) Fort (NR).
OS 6" map, Roxburghshire, (1923).
'...Castle Hill, Ancrum, with its oval citadel and two rectilinear linked courts, falls most readily into this class...' (The 'class' is composed of forts belonging to the Dark Age "nuclear type of fortification. The site is also marked on the distribution map as a Dark Age Fort.)
(RCAHMS 1956, 35, fig. 22)
Feachem includes this site in the 'smaller walled settlement' class and suggests that the main enclosure and the fragmentary external wall may have formed the original work, with the double annexe being added later, though not necessarily after a break in occupation.
(R W Feachem 1965).
As described and planned by RCAHMS.
Re-surveyed at 1/2500
Visited by OS (WDJ) 2 February 1967.
