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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 711594
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/711594
NT16NE 8 1995 6671.
(NT 1995 6671) Earthwork (NR)
OS 1:10000 map (1980)
This sub-oval fort measures 164ft NE-SW by 124ft internally. The defences consist of two concentric earthen ramparts and ditches, separated by a berm, carried round about two-thirds of the circumference, the N segment being defended by the loch (Clubbidean Reservoir). The ends of the rampart terminate on the lochside on the NW, and, on the E, on the edge of a burn. No internal structures are visible, but three stone dykes converge within the fort obliterating much of the original contents. There are traces of an entrance about 12ft wide through the inner rampart to the S. The outer entrance is difficult to define, the rampart being obscured by a stone dyke, but it was probably some 8ft E of the inner gap, where there is a modern gateway.
RCAHMS 1929, visited 1913
This earthwork is as described above, except that the stone dyke on the outer rampart has been removed.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (JFC) 5 January 1954 and (WDJ) 19 August 1965
No change to the previous field report.
Visited by OS (BS) 23 December 1975
Photographed by the RCAHMS in 1980. Listed by them as a fort.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Though not obvious from the above text, the fort is essentially a 'promontory type' as Clubbiedean Reservoir is of 19th Century date and previous to its construction the prehistoric feature would have been situated on the edge of a steep defile above a burn or very small loch.
The earliest Ordnance Survey maps (1852-4) depicts the reservoir, older mapping (A & M Armstrong 1773) shows no loch in this area.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2008
