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Remains of a possible motte. The New Statistical Account of 1845 refers to a small camp with a rampart and ditch, and the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps depict this as the site of a fort, noting that ashes were found here about 1835, and OS site visit 1968 described this as the remains of an earthwork, on the edge of a low escarpment, defined by a broad shallow ditch circa 10m wide and 0.8m deep enclosing a raised platform measuring circa 50m by 40m. OS found no trace of the rampart described by the NSA, and suggested that it was almost certainly a motte from its topographical position and general appearance. Site visit by RCAHMS in 2002 recorded the remains of the earthwork, the ditch 12m wide and 0.6m deep, with a short section of bank remaining on the southwest side measuring circa 8m thick and 1m high although elsewhere it survives only as a broad swelling. The west side of the earthwork is partly hidden beneath an uncultivated bauik on the lip of the terrace. A number of trees stand on the baulk which has also been used for the dumping of field clearance. RCAHMS suggest although date and function is unknown, it may be a moated site or possibly the remains of a Neolithic henge.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)