Oblique aerial view.
SC 379157
Description Oblique aerial view.
Date 1988
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 379157
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 16805
Scope and Content Fort at White Hill, Dumfries and Galloway On a low ridge at the top of Annandale lie the impressive remains of an oval fort with a later settlement overlying its interior. Part of the site has suffered extensive plough damage. Field clearance material obscures part of the interior. Enclosed by two stone-faced ramparts and a ditch, this impressive fort had probably been long abandoned when a new settlement was built inside. Now much robbed for stone, its defensive bank can still be seen in this aerial view. Around the end of the 1st millennium, forts across the Borders area were being abandoned. Some were partially reoccupied, with enclosures built inside older defences. Pollen evidence suggests there was substantial forest clearance around this time. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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