Iron Age hillfort.


The inner rampart is enclosed by an almost concentric outer defence lying 20-30m distant. This outer rampart is the more substantial and obvious of the two because of its exposed stonework, and the excavator suggested that the inner rampart was partially dismantled to provide material.


The outer rampart was revetted on the inside by a turf bank, and on the outside by an almost vertical stone wall. Today the wall stands to a height of almost 2m, but the amount of fallen material suggests that it would originally have been significantly higher.


Recent survey and geophysical prospecting suggests that the most likely entrance through the outer defences lay on the western side, where two lengths of the rampart overlap, creating a defensible passageway.