Dragon's Hole

NO 13142246 This is centred on a rocky outcrop quarried on its south side, and with a rough dwelling constructed inside the quarry hollow, including a room 4 metres square. However the whole knoll is contained in a massive square structure battered to the base, which might indicate a tower here. Notes unclear – but seem to indicate 15 metres square base. This structure is on the southern edge of a larger platform, the western edge of it is 6 metres from the mound, and the north-west angle 24 metres, and it is about 30 metres from a near vertical north-south edge of the summit.

Not certain of location due to lack of any map referenced landmarks but think it is at NO 132226. It is on a knoll 15 metres north of a ruined building 9.5 by 6 metres, which is beside one of the tarmac paths just north of a clearing. There is a terraced north-south path 16 metres west of the knoll. This area called Goul Hill on Macfarlane’s Map 1792. The knoll originally featured a circular enclosure about 18 metres diameter, of which the wall is best preserved on the south arc, and only fragmentarily elsewhere. An L-shaped building was constructed within it, the E-W part is about 2.5 metres from the inside of the curve of the wall, and is about 12 metres long by 9 metres wide over a wall in excess of 2 metres thick. The north arm projects from the west end, and utilises part of the circular wall as a room divide, with a sloping room beyond.

T C Welsh 2008