Cacrabank Hill
Enclosure (Period Unknown), Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Cacrabank Hill
Classification Enclosure (Period Unknown), Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Hibble Hags
Canmore ID 71266
Site Number NY19SW 31
NGR NY 1457 9162
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71266
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Applegarth
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
Field Visit (16 July 1990)
NY 1457 9162 NY19SW 31
This possible scooped settlement is situated on a slight terrace on the SW flank of Cacrabank Hill above Hibble Hags. Subrectangular on plan with a later semicircular annex on the S, it measures 24.6m from E to W by 23.5m transversely within an earth-and-stone bank 3.7m thick by up to 0.3m high externally. The entrance (3m wide) is on the upper side, at the NE corner; a slight break in the bank on the SE (at the junction with the overlying bank of the annex) is possibly for drainage. The interior is featureless.
The annexe comprises a semicircular arc of walling 1.4m thick, which overlies the bank of the settlement on the SE. Now reduced to a grass-grown stony bank 2.2m thick and 0.2m high, the wall encloses an area measuring 22.3m from E to W by 10.5m transversely. The entrance is on the W, where the wall of the annexe stops 2.5m short of the bank of the settlement. There is a recent cairn at the centre of the interior.
Visited by RCAHMS (SMF), 16 July 1990.
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
