The Mote of Mark: A Dark Age Hillfort in South-West Scotland

by Lloyd Robert Laing

The Mote of Mark is a low boss of granite rising from forty-five metres above the eastern shore of Rough Firth, where the Urr Water enters the Solway, between the villages of Kippford and Rockcliffe. The summit comprises a central hollow between two raised areas of rock and was formerly defended by a stone and timber rampart enclosing one third of an acre. The Mote of Mark appears to have first attracted the attention of antiquaries in the late eighteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842172174
• ISBN13: 9781842172179
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.2" x 11.7"