Field Visit
Date March 1985
Event ID 1156386
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156386
Dunduff NS 2700 1635 NS21NE 6
This earthwork is situated on a rocky knoll 170m W of Dunduff Castle. The only visible defences are on the SW, where there are twin ramparts with a medial ditch, but elsewhere the earthwork is protected by steep rocky slopes. On the WSW the inner rampart measures up to 4.7m in thickness by 1m in height; to the S, however, it has been reduced to little more than a scarp, and to the N it stops 12m short of the rocky outcrop that forms the NW side of the knoll, possibly marking the site of the entrance. The ditch is flat-bottomed, measuring up to 9.2m in breadth by 0.9m in depth, and its inner lip, a scarp about 0.6m high, runs past the gap in the inner rampart unbroken. The outer rampart measures up to 7.9m in thickness by 1.3m in height. The interior measures about 43m from NNW to SSE by 28m transversely. There is no evidence to support the suggestion that this is a medieval ring-work (Talbot 1975) and the date and purpose of the earthwork are unknown.
RCAHMS 1985, visited (SH) March 1985
(NSA, v, Ayrshire, 365; Smith 1895, 176-7).
