Desk Based Assessment
Date 30 August 1972
Event ID 584512
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/584512
(NS 0504 6397) Earthwork (R)
OS 6" map (1957)
The top of Cnoc-an-Dun is enclosed within a flattened earthen rampart, 120ft in diameter, with an external ditch visible on the N and E sides. Four hollows, which Hewison suggested were hut circles, were found to be slight irregular depressions in the hill slope on the NW. The best one, 14ft in diameter, was excavated in 1955, but no trace of occupation or of hut walls was found. Soil may have been removed from the area when making the rampart, so leaving the depression.
Information from OS (IF) 30 August 1972
J K Hewison 1893; D N Marshall 1963
