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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 686997
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/686997
NO34SW 7 3227 4177
For observatory within the area of the fort, see NO34SW 39.
(NO 3227 4177) Fort (NR)
OS 25" map, (1972)
An unfinished fort with an area of 16 1/2 acres was discovered on Kinpurney Hill during the Marginal Lands Survey between 1956 and 1958. It is considered worthy of preservation.
RCAHMS 1963; R W Feachem 1966.
An unfinished fort, sub-oval on plan, consisting of a rampart and ditch, encircling Kinpurney Hill, some 100' below its summit. Where evident, the rampart is generally reduced to a scarp, c. 2.0m high on average, and the ditch to a narrow terrace. On the S side, along the steep natural slope, there is little evidence of the rampart and none of the ditch. The entrance is in the middle of the W side.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (W D J) 7 December 1967.
Vitrified rock from here is in Brechin Museum (1977.311).
Letter from G W Zealand, Angus District Museums to Ordnance Survey, 20 November 1978.
