Field Visit
Date 3 May 1957
Event ID 920037
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/920037
MOTTE, GALLOWS HILL. (cf. P.S.A.S. xxxiv, 49).
As the sketch in the Note Book shows, practically all this motte has been destroyed by former quarrying. It stands at the end of a glacial ridge of the same length and breadth as the plantation shows on the O.S. map, its top being only 9 ft. above the top of the ridge. Viewed from the ridge-top it looks perfectly motte-like, and too rectangular to be natural, but there is now no indication of the ditch shown on Proceedings Fig. 3 (p. 48) and the second level in the quarry face exhibits no sign of tip-layers - the gravel and sand of the kaim appearing to be undisturbed. It may, of course, have been a natural knoll adapted for use of a motte , but it would be helpful to be able to link it to some specific documentary evidence.
RCAHMS, visited 3 May 1957
573492 xxxix SE ("Mote")
