Archaeology Notes

Event ID 725633

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX36NE 5 3942 6640.

(Area: NX 394 664) The remains of a double-walled oval fort have been located on Barnkirk Hill and planned by RCAHMS.

R W Feachem 1956; RCAHMS 1957

Situated on the top of Barnkirk Hill, at NX 3942 6640, are the slight remains of a fort. It consists of two ramparts enclosing a central oval area measuring 88.0m NW-SE by 54.0m E-W with an entrance in the NW. The ramparts are almost completely ploughed out, existing as mere scarps c.0.5m average height, apart from at the S end where the inner and outer faces of the lower rampart can be traced.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RD) 16 September 1966.