Archaeology Notes

Event ID 725359

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX29NE 1 2595 9895.

(NX 259 989) Fort (NR)

OS 6" map (1958)

An oval fort, possibly unfinished, consisting of two earthen ramparts, which are presumably contemporary although not concentric, with external quarry ditches. The defences can be traced round the summit of the hill except on the steep NNW side, where the abrupt and well- defined terminals of the ditches suggest that they have not continued round this side. The ramparts are still well-defined on the east where they measure 7.3m in maximum width, 1m externally and 0.3m internally in maximum height. Elsewhere they exist only as crest lines. There is a staggered causewayed entrance on the east the break in the inner rampart being 7m wide and the outer 5m.

Both ramparts and ditches have an unfinished look, the ditch being perfunctory in some places as though it were simply a marking-out trench (R W Feachem 1963; RCAHMS TS 12 May 1953).

Visited by OS (JLD) 5 May 1954

NX 2595 9895. This fort is as described.

Surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (SFS) 28 January 1976