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Field Visit
Date 1 September 1913
Event ID 1114529
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1114529
Fort, Clubbiedean Reservoir.
Rather over a mile south-east of Currie station, on a slight plateau on the southern side of Clubbiedean Reservoir, at an elevation of slightly under 800 feet above sea-level, are the remains of a fort. On the east side is the small Clubbiedean Burn, on the north a slight depression runs down to the loch, and to the south is a small hollow, with the Pentlands rising beyond. The plan of the fort is sub-oval, and the main axis runs north-east and south-west, its length along this line being 164 feet internally, and its greatest breadth 124 feet. The defences consist of two concentric earthen ramparts with a ditch between them and another on the outside. These works are carried round about two thirds of its circumference, the northern segment being defended by the loch. The ends of the ramparts terminate at the loch side on the north-west, and on the east at the edge of the burn near its junction with the loch. At the latter point the ramparts diverge considerably, the distance between them at their eastern terminations being some 70 feet. The inner rampart at the north-western termination is carried some distance farther east along the loch side than the outer. The defences are well preserved along the southern arc. A section here shows the inner rampart, 14 feet broad at the base and 3 feet high, with a terrace outside 5 feet broad, beyond which is a ditch 23 feet broad and 5 feet deep. Between this ditch and the outer rampart is a platform 14 feet broad, the rampart. 23 feet broad at the base, rising 5 feet above the platform and 8 feet above the bottom of an outer ditch, which is 16 feet broad and 4 ½ feet deep on the counterscarp. No indications of internal structures are visible, but three dry-stone dykes converge inside the fort, obliterating much of the original contents. There are traces of an entrance about 12 feet broad through the inner rampart to the south. As the summit of the outer rampart here is crowned by a stone dyke, the outer entrance is difficult to define, but probably it penetrated the outer defence some 8 feet east of the inner gap, where there is a modern gateway.
RCAHMS 1929, visited 1 September 1913.
OS map: vii N.W.
