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Archaeology Notes
Date - 1977
Event ID 696186
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/696186
NR89NW 10 8029 9597.
(NR 8029 9597) Fort (NR) (Vitrified)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
This fort, occupying a ridge above the shore, consists of three concentric oval walls, two of which end on the cliff on the W. The innermost wall encloses the summit area, 150' x 90'. The walls are now much spread, with vitrified stone mainly at NE and SW. Excavations were carried out here in 1904, when flint scrapers, cores and flakes were recovered from the subsoil - now lost; 36 saddle querns, now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS - HH 54 - 81), a jet fragment (HH 82), and various hammerstones, pebbles and whetstones - ? now lost, were also found.
D Christison 1905; M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.
A vitrified fort consisting of an inner wall c. 2.0m thick (now barely traceable on the E) enclosing an oval area measuring 44.0m N-S by 28.0m. This, in turn, is encircled by another wall which begins on a rock face in the SW and ends on the same rock face in the NW though the last 20.0m or so are lost in dense rhodedendrons. Beyond this on the S are two additional walls (both with some evidence of vitrifaction) which merge into one and then join the second wall in the SE.
The entrance is not clear and the interior is featureless.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J P) 23 May 1973.
No change to the report of 23 May 1973.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (B S) 15 April 1977.
