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Easter Lochend
Fort (Iron Age)
Site Name Easter Lochend
Classification Fort (Iron Age)
Canmore ID 15234
Site Number NH85SW 9
NGR NH 84314 53281
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15234
- Council Highland
- Parish Croy And Dalcross (Nairn)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Nairn
- Former County Nairn
NH85SW 9 8431 5328
(NH 8431 5328) Fort.
Visible on OS air photographs AR/OS.67.095: 284-5, flown May 1967.
(Undated) information transferred from OD archaeology records.
A fort, overgrown with whin, straddling a glacial ridge running E to W. A bank, c.0.5m high, with outer ditch, c.0.3m deep, each c.3.0m wide, crosses the ridge in the E and W isolating a level sub-rectangular area measuring c.23.0m by c.10.0m. The ditch continues round most of the N side as a terrace c.1.5m wide in the NW where it is best preserved, and at a maximum of c.3.5m below the summit. Nothing could be seen on the S side due to dense whin.
No entrance is evident and there is no trace of stone-work.
The fort is similar in character and situation to NJ02NW 9.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 8 January 1970.
The defences of this fort, which occupies a steep-sided ridge running from E to W, have been reduced to short stretches of rampart and accompanying ditch on the E and W respectively. The rampart stands to a height of 0.5m and the ditch is 3m broad and up to 0.3m deep.
RCAHMS 1978, visited March 1978.
Scheduled as 'Easter Lochend, fort... a small Iron-Age fort situated across a small ridge... in uncultivated pasture 350m WNW of Easter Lochend farm.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 15 October 2007.
Field Visit (March 1978)
Easter Lochend NH 843 532 NH85SW 9
The defences of this fort, which occupies a steep-sided ridge running from E to W, have been reduced to short stretches of rampart and accompanying ditch on the E and W respectively. The rampart stands to a height of 0.5m and the ditch is 3m broad and up to 0.3m deep.
RCAHMS 1978, visited March 1978
Note (23 March 2015 - 31 May 2016)
This small fortification is situated on a narrow glacial ridge and is currently almost completely blanketed in gorse and whins. Roughly sub-rectangular on plan, its interior measures about 23m from E to W by 10m transversely (0.02ha). The defences comprise a single rampart and ditch, which are most clearly visible cutting across the spine of the ridge on the E and W, where the rampart is no more than 0.5m high and the ditch is 3m broad and 0.3m deep. Elsewhere the ditch drops down the flanks of the ridge, along the N flank forming a terrace about 1.5m wide some 3.5m below the crest. The S side was already lost in the whins when the OS first noted the fort in 1970 and they could find no trace of an entrance.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2911
