Archaeology Notes
Date - 1957
Event ID 704340
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/704340
NS77NW 21 7391 7774.
The remains of a small fort, 500' in circumference, surrounded by a rampart of stone and earth 14' in breadth, with several internal dividing walls of rough stone, were visible about 1726 near a few houses called Columbee, E of Coliam, near Kilsyth.
(A Gordon 1726)
Gordon's description suggests that the work was probably a dun, but there is no reason to assume that it was necessarily circular on plan, as Gordon habitually records the circumference of a structure whatever may be its shape. Although no remains are now visible, the site may be represented by a rocky knoll, measuring about 200' E-W by about 50', within Colziumbea plantation.
(RCAHMS 1963, visited 1954)
NS 7391 7774. Within a small wood is a prominent rocky hillock, with a fairly level summit. It is a good site for a dun, but there is no indication of such. No other likely site was noted in the immediate vicinity.
Visited by OS (JLD) 18 March 1957
