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Archaeology Notes
Date - 1974
Event ID 710868
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/710868
NT09NE 2 0762 9650
For cairn within the fort, see NT09NE 4.
(NT 0762 9650) Dumglow (NAT) Promontory Fort (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959).
There are the remains of a fort, within which there is a cairn (NT09NE 4) on the summit of Dumglow. The hilltop is bordered to N, W, and S by steep cliffs, but defences have been drawn against approach from the E. These and the cliff-tops contain an area 500' x 400'. The defences consist of four low stony ramparts placed only 12' apart, with an entrance near each end. (See RCAHMS 1933 plan, fig. 453). The ONB records that from time to time, several pieces of urns, swords etc have been found in the ditches.
(R W Feachem 1963; RCAHMS 1933, visited 1927; Name Book 1854).
This fort is generally as described. As well as the two entrances there are several breaks in the ramparts and signs of stone robbing. The interior contains evidence of quarrying but there are no huts visible.
Surveyed at 1:10,000 scale.
Visited by OS (BS) 19 February 1974.
