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Nether Oliver Craigs
Fort (Prehistoric)
Site Name Nether Oliver Craigs
Classification Fort (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 49756
Site Number NT12NW 15
NGR NT 1014 2519
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49756
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Tweedsmuir
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT12NW 15 1014 2519
(NT 1014 2519) Fort (NR)
OS 6" map (1966)
A fort occupies a low rocky knoll on the SE flank of Nether Oliver Craigs. It measures 140ft. by 60ft. within a boulder-faced rubble wall 6ft. thick, which now appears for the most part as a stony bank in which a few facing-stones are visible. The main entrance, measuring 8ft. in width, is in the E corner, while an indentation in the WSW side of the knoll may indicate the site of another. On the E, an outer wall runds from the crest of the N flank of the knoll to marshy ground on the S. This wall is now represented partly by a low stony bank, and partly by a mere scarp in which four outer facing-stones are visible immediately S of the entrance.
The upper (W) portion of the interior is separated from the lower part by a scarp 2ft. in height; neither division shows any signs of dwellings.
(Information from R W Feachem notebook 1955-7, i, 96)
RCAHMS 1967, visited 1956.
Generally as described, the outer wall on the E continues after a break, along the S side of the fort.
Re-surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RL) 13 August 1963 and (DWR) 18 September 1972.
Note (7 October 2015 - 31 May 2016)
This small fort or fortified settlement occupies a rocky knoll near the foot of the S flank of Nether Oliver Craigs, from which it is separated by a steep-sided gully. A single rampart extends round the margins of the knoll to enclose a sub-rectangular area measuring 42m from ESE to WNW by 18m transversely (0.08ha). There is at least one entrance, situated at the E corner, where an outer rampart also bars the easiest line of approach, but a gap in the rampart on the SSW flank of the knoll may mark a second. The interior is divided into two by a low scarp towards the WNW end, but it is otherwise featureless.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3568
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
