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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 713452
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/713452
NT28NW 8 2114 8729.
(NT 2114 8729) Fort (NR)
OS 6" map, (1967)
The summit of Dunearn Hill is occupied by an Early Iron Age (G S Maxwell 1969) fort measuring about 400' x 130' within the ruin of a heavy stone wall. The entrance, in the E, is protected by a long hornwork of slighter but still very stout proportions. This fort is overlain by an almost circular defensive enclosure of presumed post-Roman date (G S Maxwell 1969), measuring 120' in diameter within a wall about 12' thick. Maxwell notes also three unenclosed stone-walled huts, apparently built after the fort became disused, though their relationship to the circular enclosure is uncertain.
RCAHMS 1933; R W Feachem 1955; 1963; Information from R W Feachem; G S Maxwell 1969.
The fort and later enclosure are as described. To the NW on lower uneven ground at NT 2109 8735 are four stone-walled huts measuring between 8.0m and 10.0m in diameter over walls 1.2m thick. Each hut has been levelled into the SW-facing slope but there are no certain entrances.
Fort revised at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J P) 24 June 1974.
