Brotherstone Hill South

The remains of an enclosure can still be traced on a knoll on the east side of Brotherstone Hill South.

The enclosure measures 42m by 43m in extent, and is sub-circular in form. It is defined by a broad earth and stone bank which measures 5m in width. The feature is now very poorly preserved, reaching a maximum height of 0.3m.

This enclosure is probably prehistoric in origin, and may date to the first millennium BC. Its occupants would probably have lived in round-houses, traces of which can sometimes be seen as low circular banks or walls in the interior of sites like this. In this particular example, however, no such structures have survived.

Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project

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(NT 6194 3584) On the east knoll of Brotherstone South Hill, is a fort-like enclosure measuring 132ft x 117ft, formed by a single rampart of stones 12ft in width, with entrance at SE. The remains are too slight to be pronounced as those of a fort; but the nature of the site defended by a steep slope to the north, and gentle slopes elsewhere, would suggest such an origin.

J H Craw 1921.

Generally as described above, this sub-circular enclosure 42m x 43m, consists of a single earth-and-stone rampart 5m broad and 0.3m in height.

(Visible on RAF air photographs 106G/Scot/Uk 18 7117).

Visited by OS (JD), 24 May 1955.

The bank of this enclosure is now reduced to a scarp on all sides except the east.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RDL), 20 September 1962.