Auchalick Wood

This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.

Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.

The wasted remains of this fort are situated in a clearing in Auchalick Wood on the summit of a rocky knoll. Irregular on plan, it measures 50m SW-NE by a maximum of 42m transversely within a heavily robbed wall which, for the most part, has been reduced to a stony bank about 2m thick and up to 0.4m high, but which has been completely removed for a short stretch on the E. Along the centre of the outer face of the wall there are several large blocks which appear to be displaced facing-stones. The principal entrance lies on the W, where the knoll is approached up a natural gully; what may be a second entrance is situated on the E. The interior is composed of a series of terraces traversed by numerous rock outcrops between which it is possible that houses may have been built. (See NR97SW 5 for details of cup-markings within the fort.)

RCAHMS 1988, Visited May 1986.

This fort encloses the summit of a rocky knoll. Irregularly shaped on plan, it measures 50m from NE to SW by a maximum of 42m transversely (0.17ha) within a wall reduced to a stony bank some 2m thick in maximum thickness. The entrance is on the W via a natural gully through the outcrops. Apart from two exposures of cup-markings, the interior is featureless.

Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2474