Craigraploch

NX74SW 1 7247 4400.

(NX 7247 4400) Earthwork (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

This fort occupies a spur of Wall Hill at 325' OD. Its general form is difficult to determine, but it appears to have been elliptical, measuring internally 192' WNW-ESE by 142' transversely enclosed by a ditch, with a wall of large blocks above the scarp, and a stout rampart on the counter-scarp. At the N end, about 40' in front of the main defence there is a parallel hollow, apparently an outwork, while a similar hollow carries along the edge of the summit, continuing the ditch indefinitely beyond the main enclosure. There are a number of circular and oval hollows in the interior, from 1' - 2' deep varying in size, most of which show signs of building on the sides - probably huts, being c15' in diameter or 30' by 13'.

Commencing c50' S of the S end of the vallum on the W, there is an 8' wide ditch, 6' deep below the scarp, winding S for c. 60' ending in an oval hollow, 20' by 15', from the end of this a narrower passage, 20' long leads out to a plat on the hillside. The whole appearance of the summit suggests a long continuous occupation.

RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911; F R Coles 1891

This fort generally as described, is sub-circular in plan measuring c 50.0m in internal diameter. The ramparts have been severely mutilated by military operations which have also destroyed the internal structures. There is no evidence of outworks or an entrance.

Resurveyed at 1/2500

Visited by OS (RD) 8 April 1971

This fort occupies a bracken- and gorse-covered spur to the WSW of Wall Hill. A military track bisects the fort from NE to SW, and a radar relay station and observation bunker (KTA02 97) have been built in the interior. The bracken-covered rampart is only visible on the E and elsewhere is obscured by bracken and gorse, which also clothes those parts of the interior that have not been destroyed by the military works.

(KTA02 97)

Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 7 January 2003