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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 723306
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/723306
NX04SE 3 0755 4257
(NX 0755 4257) Earthwork (NR)
OS 6" map (1957); 1:10000 map (1978)
A promontory fort situated on a peninsular rock rising 20-30' above high water, lying parallel to the cliff line on the shore, from which it is separated by a deep chasm, 5-6' wide, which has almost formed it into an island were it not for a narrow wall of rock bridging it at its S end. Along the edge of the cliff, facing the land above the chasm are the remains of a rampart, 83' long, faced externally with stone, a few of these being still visible left of the entrance. It is now of slight elevation and has a 60' long grassy area extending behind it.
RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911; TS, 12 July 1953
The remains of this fort are generally as described. There are no internal features.
Revised at 25".
Visited by OS (RD) 9 February 1972
This fort is situated on Duniehinnie, a rocky promontory 700m WNW of Mullhill farmhouse. The sides of the promontory drop steeply into the sea and, except for a narrow neck on the S side about 4m wide, the landward approach is blocked by a precipitous cleft. A substantial wall, now reduced to a mound of rubble up to 4.5m thick and 1.5m high externally (0.9m internally) runs along the lip of the cleft and dies out after about 30m against a rock outcrop on the S side of the promontory; at least three outer facing-stones are visible, and others are probably obscured by the deep tussocky turf that covers the rubble of the wall. There is no evidence of an entrance through the wall, and the only point of access to the interior is by way of a gentle rock slope, from which a narrow ledge 3.7m below the S end of the wall leads to the neck of the promontory. The interior measures 77m from ENE to WSW by 29m transversely, but only a strip about 20m wide at the ENE end was probably habitable, the rest being bare rock outcrops stepping gradually down to the high water mark on the WSW.
G Wilson 1885; RCAHMS 1912; RCAHMS 1985, visited (SH) July 1984.
