What is recorded here
On a shelf of a SW-facing slope towards the bottom of Skrine Hill. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 40m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 5m; ext. H 1.7m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of base 2.2m; D 1.45m) from an outer bank (Wth 0.6m; ext. H 0.5m), which does not survive NW-NE. There is an entrance (Wth c. 4m) at W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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