NX88SE 1.00 8944 8431 NX88SE 1.01 894 843 Flanged, Bronze Axe (NX 8944 8431) Camp (NR) OS 6" map (1957) This oval fort measures 250' by 160' internally, enclosed by a broad earth-and-stone rampart, at most 5' high, at the SE end, and carried along the NE side for about half its length, where it ends abruptly, probably because of robbing. Except at the SE end, the outer defences have been ploughed out. The well-defined entrance, in SE, passes through a series of ramparts; to the N, there only remains a short part of a single outer rampart, returning to meet the inner. On the S, the defences consist of the inner rampart, a 10' deep ditch, a broad berm with a rampart at its edge, a second ditch, then a strong ram- part with a slight ditch at its base. These defences pass S from the entrance, and end where the steepness of the hill makes them unnecessary. RCAHMS 1920, visited 1913; J M Corrie 1926; J M Coles 1966; NSA 1841 (R Bryden) A Middle Bronze Age flanged axe (NX88SE 1.01) from this fort, long in the possession of Mr A Symington, Allanton, Auldgirth, the proprietor of the estate, was donated by him to the NMAS in 1925 (Acc No DC 109). The NSA also notes 'It is reported that a battle-axe was once found in this hill'. Information from OS Recorder (IF) 15 June 1973 This fort is generally as described. Resurveyed at 1/2500. Visited by OS (BS) 19 November 1973. A palisaded enclosure defined by two closely spaced trenches is visible on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 2000) within the fort, describing parts of a circuit within and roughly concentric to the ramparts. Information from RCAHMS (KMM) 7 May 2004.