Archaeology Notes

Event ID 719619

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT67NE 60 NT 68340 75520

See also NT67NE 50 and NT67NE 95.

(NT 6834 7552) Fort (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map (1908)

Fort, Doon Hill. On the shoulder of the hill about 110 yards W of, and some 15ft lower than,the summit, are the badly mutilated remains of a fort, oval in outline, of which the longer axis runs ENE and WSW. The distance between the ramparts at the ENE end was 34ft, but widened on the southern flank. The outer defence took the form of a scarp at the WSW end, 124 ft distant from the inner rampart and 15ft lower. The entrance was at the NW end.

RCAHMS 1924

The fort was triangular in plan with the apex pointing west, and was defended by a triple rampart on both E and S sides. Internally it measured approximately 400ft in length by 250ft in maximum breadth. It is now ploughed out.

RCAHMS Marginal Lands MS 1954

Generally as described above; the ramparts have been further reduced by cultivation.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RD) 7 April 1966