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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 724780
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/724780
NT86NE 4 8537 6970.
(NT 8537 6970) Fort and Enclosures (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976).
This fort and enclosures occupy the highest point of Lowries Knowes. They are generally as planned by the RCAHMS (RCAHMS Marginal land survey 29 July 1952). The ramparts of the fort exist generally as slight stony mutilated mounds, while the enclosures to the SE are formed in general by stony banks some 0.6m high.
The northernmost enclosure appears to have obliterated the outer rampart of the fort, utilising the inner rampart as its NW side.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 23 February 1966.
This fort occupies a rocky knoll (approximately 200m OD) about 55m SSW of Dowlaw; pear-shaped on plan, it measures 55m by 37m within a heavily-robbed wall spread up to 6.3m in thickness with an entrance on the SSE. There is an outer rampart on the NE, S and SW, but on the E all traces of it have been removed by a later, irregularly- shaped enclosure. A circular enclosure 23m in diameter within a stony bank 2.7m thick lies 12m to the SE; a rectangular building-platform measuring 14.8m by 4.5m lies on its E side.
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.
