Archaeology Notes

Event ID 721002

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT63SW 3 6275 3468.

(Centred NT 6275 3468) Fort, Butchercote: An oval fort, 258ft x 174ft occupies the SW end of a rocky promontory. At the SW end, on cultiveted land, a rampart can be traced in the form of a terrace running round the point of the promontory. 40ft beyond this are the remains of another terrace at a lower level. The NE end seems to have been almost obliterated by cultivation and here two slight hollows 45ft apart seem to represent trenches.

J H Craw 1921.

The terrace on the SW is 3.5m broad. On the NE is avague broad hollow approximately 23.0m across, and 0.7m maximum depth. (Visible on RAF air photographs: 106G/Scot UK 18; 7241).

Visited by OS (JD) 24 May 1955.

The SW end of this earthwork is as described above. The NE section is at present under crop and no trace of the earthwork can be made out there. Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RDL) 24 September 1962

Further aerial photographs taken by the RCAHMS in 1981, 1983, 1984, 1992 and 1995.

(Undated) information in NMRS.