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Field Visit
Date May 1982
Event ID 1102490
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1102490
This well-preserved fort occupies a position of considerable natural strength on the summit of Dun Mor, an elongated ridge 200m NNE of Dunmore House (Campbell and Sandeman 1964). Aligned NE and SW and subrectangular on plan, it measures 45m by 22m within a stout stone wall up to 4m in thickness. Long stretches of both outer and inner facing-stones survive; on the SW the outer face stands in one place to a height of 1.7m in ten courses and in two sections to heights of 1.7m in eight courses. The builders have made careful use of the natural rocky terraces and spines, the SE side being built along the crest of a spine that rises some 2.5m above a level shelf on the exterior of the fort; on top of the spine the wall still stands with a carefully built batter to a height of 1.1m. On the SE there is also a short curious feature of the inner face, which appears to represent a rebuilding or buttressing of the wall, the face here being some 0.9m high in five courses. There are entrances at the centre of the NE and SW ends of the fort; the inner angle and one side-slab of the SE side of the NE entrance remain in position, but much of the opposite side is hidden by tree roots. The walling at the SW end of the fort has been heavily robbed, and the entrance is now little more than a gap in the rubble. Two hollows in the wall on the SW side appear to be small recent bothies. At the centre of the interior of the fort there is a subrectangular building of no great age. A band of rubble at the SW end is all that remains of a cross-wall which also appears to be comparatively recent in date.
About 44m to the SW of the fort there are traces of an outer wall, now reduced to little more than a band of rubble in which occasional stones of the outer face have remained in position.
Visited May 1982
RCAHMS 1988
