Description

The monument is a motte on a small promontory projecting into the valley of the Kittoch Water. It has been constructed by digging two transverse ditches across the promontory, thereby isolating an oval-shaped area, some 40m (NE-SW) x 18m. The quarried material seems to have been used to raise the height of the enclosed area. The top of the mound is flat, but a raised circular area, 17m in diameter, at the NE end may possibly represent the site of a building, perhaps a keep. The scheduled area includes the mound, ditches, counterscarps and all ground within the fenceline, measuring some 140m (NE-SW) x 80m (NW-SE).

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

The monument is of national importance because of the light that it sheds, and has the potential to shed through archaeological excavation, on the pattern of settlement, the society and the material culture (in particular techniques of fortification) of 11th- and 12th- century Scotland. Its interest is increased by the as yet unexplained proximity of a site of the same type only 150m away at Rough Hill.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland