Field Visit
Date 2 May 1957
Event ID 926911
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/926911
As Macdonald reports (1916, 318 f), there are two sizes of rampart and ditch used here—the smaller rampart being for all practical purposes a stone wall. Macdonald accounts for the existence of the two sizes by differences in terrain, but his argument breaks down on the north front where the ground facing the lesser rampart us just as much in favour of the attacker as elsewhere on this side. It seems probable the true explanation is that the smaller size of rampart represents unfinished work.
There are numerous shallow pits on Garrison Hill which, on the analogy of similar pits at Cawthorne [Cawthorn Camps, Yorkshire], may indicate the sites of tents, but otherwise the interior is featureless.
Visited by RCAHMS (KS) 2 May 1957.
