Archaeology Notes

Event ID 730780

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY29NW 6 24900 95540.

(NY 2490 9554) Fort (NR)

OS 6" map (1965)

This defended settlement measures 200 ft N-S by 175 ft within an earth-and-stone rampart, 51 ft broad at base and 22 ft at the entrance, with an external ditch, in places cut through rock. Except to the N, it is 15 ft wide and 6 ft deep below the crest of the scarp. The principal entrance, 7 ft wide, has been from the lowest point, and opens into a hollow carried inwards between two long parallel mounds formed by excavating the surface around them. There has also been an entrance from the N above a steep downward slope, between which and the rampart lies a natural terrace, 15 ft wide, occupying the position of the ditch.

Curved indentations near the foot of the interior scarps almost certainly mark the sites of round, timber-built houses. There are up to eight or nine visible here, the greater part of the interior probably being given over to dwellings.

RCAHMS 1920, visited 1912; G Jobey 1971

As described and planned by Jobey. Only two possible house sites can be recognised.

Revised at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 4 September 1962 and (IA) 18 October 1973

Clear of forestry planting.

A M Jackson 1978