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Archaeology Notes
Date - 1973
Event ID 675904
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NS00SE 1 0973 0182.
(NN 0974 0185) Fort (NR) (An Dun) (NAT)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
This site, 1/4 mile N of Strachur, consists of two separate structures, (i) a fort, 132' by 63', with a tumbled surrounding wall 6' wide, enclosing (ii) a smaller structure, suggestive of a broch or galleried dun, though without excavation it is impossible to say which. Both faces of its 13' thick walls are well-preserved; it has been much disturbed on the W, but its inner diameter appears to have been c. 36'. A cell, or stair, is traceable in the NE, and an entrance is on the NW.
M Paterson 1970; V G Childe 1932; Information contained in letter from Miss E Rennie to OS, 19 November 1967.
A dun, measuring internally 11.0m in diameter within a wall up to 3.9m wide (between faces) on the E and N. On the S, the rubble wall core is spread to 4.5m in width and no facing stones are visible. Several earthfast stones on the E probably indicate intra-mural structures. A robbing scoop may conceal the entrance the entrance on the W.
To the W is an outwork consisting of a rubble wall up to 3.0m wide, with several inner facing stones remaining on the N, enclosing an area measuring 20.5m E-W by 16.0m N-S. The entrance is probably on the S. There is no evidence to suggest that this enclosure pre-dates the dun.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (D W R) 28 February 1973.
