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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 659181
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/659181
NG87NW 6 8027 7534.
(NG 8027 7534) Site of Dun (NR). (Supposed Pictish Fort).
A small fort (R W Feachem 1963) consisting of one enclosure on a promontory, named 'An Dun', which is cut off by a ditch crossed by a causeway.
The enclosure, about 65' each way, is formed by the grass-grown remains of a wall about 2' high, with, on the south, an entrance flanked by vitrified matter.
The ditch varies from 7' to 10' in width and the causeway, formed by an undug traverse, is 7' wide.
The tip of the promontory is cut off by a natural gully, but there is no evidence to suggest that it has been a separate fort.
There is a local tradition of a mediaeval castle on or near this site. (J H Dixon 1886)
R W Feachem 1963; A Graham 1951; J H Dixon 1886.
The fort, measuring 20.0m North to South by 14.0m East to West, is as described above.
There are faint traces of a grass-covered stone bank, on the landward side of the fort, above a fairly steep rocky slope extending along the top of the cliffs. This is possibly an outer line of defence, or traces of the later castle.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 5 April 1965.
