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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 725155
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/725155
NT86NW 30 8363 6941
(NT 8363 6941) Settlement (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map (1976).
This fort is situated among rock outcrops at an elevation of 743ft OD. It comprises an oval enclosure measuring 145ft by 102ft between the crests of a single earth-and- stone rampart, which is accompanied on the S, where the ground is level, by a ditch, 20ft wide. The rampart is low, except at one point in the NW, where it is about 4ft high. The whole area is covered with heather, and the entrance is uncertain.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 1908.
A settlement, generally as described by the RCAHMS; the entrance appears to be on the N. At least four 'cup- marks' on NW vertical rock faces on the NW of the settlement appear to be water-worn or pebble hollows. There are vague indications of hut platforms in the interior.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (CJP) 26 September 1956 and (RD) 8 February 1966.
This sub-rectangular settlement is bounded by a wall 1.6m in thickness), which links a number of rock outcrops, enclosing an area measuring 43m by 23m. It is accompanied by a ditch on three sides, and the entrance probably lay on the ENE. In the interior there are the sites of at least three circular houses.
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.
