Field Visit
Date December 1977
Event ID 1144451
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Dumbowie NS 421 751 NS47NW 1
This dun stands at a height of 152 m OD on the summit of a steep-sided knoll looking SW over the River Clyde. It was excavated in the late 19th century when a stone wall 4.1 m thick was found to enclose an area 9.1 m to 9.7 m in diameter. There was an entrance 1 m wide on the E. On the W flank of the knoll, below the dun itself, two terraces 4m broad may suggest additional defences. The finds from the excavation included bone implements, stone pounders, whetstones, perforated stones, parts of two rotary querns as well as a number of stones with cup-and-ring and other markings of doubtful authenticity, and several faked weapons of slate similar to those found at the Dumbuck crannog (NS47SW 8), which was excavated in 1898.
RCAHMS 1978, visited December 1977
(Millar 1896; Feachem 1977, 181)
