Conservation

Date June 2022

Event ID 1161350

Category Building History

Type Conservation

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NX 067 446 A programme of consolidation work was undertaken at Doon Castle Broch, in June 2022, as part of the Rhins Revealed Community Archaeology Project, delivered as part of development work on the Rhins of Galloway Coast Path.

Doon Castle Broch is one of the most significant prehistoric settlements on the Rhins Peninsula in SW Dumfries and Galloway. The broch most likely occupies the site of an earlier promontory fort. The aim of the project was to improve accessibility, condition and ‘legibility’ of the broch through the stabilisation of the surviving monument. Modern rebuilds and the upper levels of rubble filling the garth of the broch and its two entranceways were removed under archaeological excavation conditions.

Along with improving accessibility and stabilising the monument previously unrecorded features were revealed and overall the legibility of the monument was improved.

Archive: NRHE (intended)

Funder: Dumfries and Galloway Council

Jamie Humble – AOC Archaeology Group