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Field Visit
Date December 1977
Event ID 1144450
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1144450
Castle Rock, Dumbarton NS 400 744 NS47SW 5
Recent excavations have shown that Castle Rock was fortified during the Early Historic Period and may be the Alcluith described by Bede as a political centre of the Britons. Most of the remains now visible, however, are of 17th-and 18th-century date and very little survives even of the medieval castle that subsequently occupied the site.
RCAHMS 1978, visited December 1977
(Macivor 1958; DES, 1974, 32-3; Alcock 1975; DES, 1975, 19-20; Alcock 1976)
