Archaeology Notes

Event ID 721534

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT96NW 14 9401 6500.

(NT 9401 6500) Corn Fort (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1976).

The Corn Fort is situated on a promontory 80ft OD. A rampart 65 yds long and 5 yds wide runs across the neck of the promontory. It is 2ft 9ins high internally and 5ft 6ins externally owing to the ground dropping away, and had an entrance at the W end close to the cliff. Eighty yards N is a low mound 15 yds long, running from edge to edge of the cliffs. In the SE corner of the fort are four rectangular foundations, which appear as banks about 1ft in height, and there are faint indications of two hut circles 10ft in diameter. The fort is probably of late date.

R Kinghorn 1935.

The S mound or rampart is 6.0m broad and 0.8m maximum height. Only a small stretch of the W extremity of the mound now measures 5ft 6ins

high as stated by Kinghorn and this internally, not externally as stated.

The N mound is 14.0m long and 0.2m maximum height. It is much mutilated and scarcely traceable.

Two turf circles, measuring 6.0m by 5.0m and 6.0m by 4.5m, and one rectangular enclosure, 5.0m by 4.0m, were seen.

Visited by OS( CJP) 29 September 1956.

Generally as described in the previous field report. The main rampart is about 9.0m in maximum width. There is possibly one hut circle attached to the inside of the main rampart, with the turf foundations of two sub- rectangular buildings nearby. References to 'hut circles' must be treated with caution.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 9 February 1966.

The Corn Fort: An earthen bank 5.7m thick and 0.9m high traverses the neck of a coastal promontory. Immediately behind the bank there are traces of three rectangular buildings measuring up to 9m by 7.5m over all. These remains may be associated with the 16th century artillery fort about 270m to the ESE, described on NT96SW 1.

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.