Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Field Visit
Date October 1982
Event ID 1147088
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1147088
Howmoor NS 277 118 NS21SE 3
There is a circular dun situated on a rocky knoll at the edge of a steep scarp 220m SW of the deserted cottage of Howmoor. It has been extensively robbed but probably measured about 15.5m over a wall 3.8m thick, with the entrance possibly lying on the S. Around the base of the knoll, except on the S where the ground falls steeply, additional defence was provided by a bank and internal ditch, and on the W what may be part of an earlier ditch and bank are visible. A series of banks to the NW and SE form part of an early, possibly contemporary, field-system.
RCAHMS 1983, visited October 1982
(Name Book, Ayr, No. 46, p. 61; Smith 1895, 177-8).
