Kirkton Burn

NT23NW 57 2245 3770.

Situated at a height of 700ft OD about 100 yds W of NT23NW 11. The settlement measures 150ft by 100ft internally, and the enclosing wall, which has entirely disappeared on the S side, is elsewhere reduced to a low, much-spread, stony bank up to 14ft in thickness. The entrance is on the E. The lower part of the interior contains a level excavated court. Three house-platforms occupy the rear of the upper portion, and there is room for two more in front of them. The foundations of two circular stone-walled houses provide evidence of secondary occupation. One of these, measuring internally about 25ft in diameter, lies a few feet W of the entrance to the settlement. The other, measuring internally about 30ft in diameter, partly overlies the W arc of the settlement wall. A subsidiary enclosure of uncertain date, measuring about 70ft by 50 ft is attached to the outer side of the NW arc of the settlement wall.

RCAHMS 1967, visited 1962

Generally as described but there is now no distinct evidence of house platforms in the rear of the upper portion.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS 23 June 1971.