Field Visit
Date 20 October 1999
Event ID 926917
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/926917
NT71NE 43
NT 767 166
Chatto Craig
Fort
This fort is situated in improved pasture 580m S of Upper Chatto farmsteading (NT71NE 132), overlooking the cultivation terraces on the slopes to the N (NT71NE 25). It occupies a prominent summit at an altitude of 312m OD and commands a broad vista to the N, E and S.
The fort remains as described by previous authorities. The inner enclosure (the ‘citadel’) measures 43.3m from N to S by 32m transversely within the inner rampart, which is best preserved on the NW where it is broken by the entrance-gap and measures 2.7m in thickness and 0.4m in height. It measures 0.7m in height on the WNW, to the S of the entrance, where the outline of what has probably been an excavation trench is also apparent.
The outer enclosure is largely defined by natural terraces and displays the complex arrangement of walls that was previously noted by RCAHMS.
Visited by RCAHMS (RJCM, PJD, MR), 20 October 1999.
RCAHMS 1956.
