Site type FORT
Canmore ID 72883
Site Number NY17NE 2.02
NGR NY 186 787
Council DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Parish HODDOM
Former Region DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Former District ANNANDALE AND ESKDALE
Former County DUMFRIES-SHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NY17NE 2.02 186 787

Listed as fort and palisade. Native artifacts recovered by excavation include flint flakes, core and knife, whetstones, saddle and rotary querns, whorl, glass bracelets and pottery. Roman finds include bronze terret-rings, button, ring, brooch and studs, lead plumb-bob, ingot and glandes, pottery, stone ballista-balls, iron arrowheads and sword, coin, glass beads and stud. These are now held in the National Museum of Scotland and Dumfries Museum.
RCAHMS 1997.

Christison, Barbour and Anderson, D, J and J (1899) 'Account of the excavation of the camps and earthworks at Birrenswark Hill in Annandale, undertaken by the Society in 1898', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol.33
Page(s): 237-43

Jobey, G (1973) 'A military redoubt on Burnswark Hill, Dumfriesshire', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3rd, vol.50
Page(s): 72-81

Jobey, G (1978) 'Burnswark Hill, Dumfriesshire', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3rd, vol.53
Page(s): passim.