Ascoile

NC81SW 4 8309 1058.

(NC 8309 1058) Earthwork (NR)

OS 6" map, (1969)

On the S side of the roadway, one mile W of Allt Smeorail are the remains of a circular earthwork of which rather less than half has been destroyed by the intersection of the road. It consists of a mound 27 feet in diameter, surrounded by a ditch 6 feet wide. The upcast from the ditch has been heaped on the outer perimeter. In the centre are some large stones suggestive of the interior of a cairn, and large stones remain on the outer rampart and in the ditch.

J M Davidson 1948.

This earthwork was considered to be a henge when visited in summer of 1960.

The ditch is 1-2 feet deep and the bank about 3 feet wide. There is little to suggest an entrance causeway across the surviving portion of the ditch, and it is concluded that a single entrance must have been located somewhere in the sector destroyed by the road.

A A Woodham 1960.

This earthwork is as described by Davidson (1948) and Woodham (1960). It is situated on an old river terrace at the base of a steep SW facing slope. The central area is disturbed, and numerous stones protrude through the turf. However the feature displays the characteristics of a hengiform earthwork similar to those at Migdale (NH69SW 36) and Conon Bridge (NH55NW 1).

Revised at 1:10,560.

Visited by OS (R D L) 28 April 1964 and (J B) 17 December 1975.

A doubtful hengi-form earthwork

G J W Wainwright 1969.

Scheduled as 'Ascoile... a circular enclosure defined by a bank and external ditch, interpreted as a late Neolithic henge monument.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 23 March 2005.