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Remains of unfinished fort. Sub-circular, well-defined ditch enclosing the hilltop with a gap in the west probably denoting an entrance. It is in turn surrounded by the scant remains of two oval marker trenches circa 10 m apart, with the remains of another outside these apparent in the west only. It may be that the innermost trench is of a different period than the other works because of its shape and much sharper definition. It possibly represents a palisade-homestead which was about to be succeeded by a fort. An area of rig and furrow lies across part of the outer trenches. An excavation was carried out in 2017 by Gordon Noble and Oskar Sveinbjarnarson as part of the Northern Pict project. Four trenches were excavated, one on the interior and three across the three lines of palisade. A possible floor layer of a building and a small pit or posthole were identified in the interior trench. The three palisade trenches identified palisade cuts and stone packing.
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