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Remains of moated homestead or motte, surviving as an earthwork mound encircles by a broad ditch and external bank. The New Statistical Account (1845) noted an earthwork in the shape of a horse-shoe on the farm of Tilliorn and known as the 'Fusee', the OS Name Book (1866) recorded that neither the earthwork or the name survived until 1866. Cropmarks (also suggesting remains of some earthworks on the ground) visible on aerial photographs taken in 1995 showed a dark ring with a ditch circa 10 m wide, an external bank around the east half of the circuit and an entrance causeway on the southwest. RCAHMS site visit 2002 recorded the remains. The mound measures 68 m east-southeast to west-northwest by 56 m transversely and stands 2 m above the surrounding land surface. The surrounding ditch measures 9 m across and completely encircles the mound. The external bank flanking the ditch is 12.5 m in thickness and survives to a height of 1.5 m in the southwest, where a modern field dyke runs over it.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)