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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 723991
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/723991
NT87SW 2 8077 7053.
(NT 8077 7053) Dean Castles (NAT)
Fort (NR) (site of)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976).
Promontory Fort, Dean Castles: This fort is situated at an elevation of some 180ft OD, in a position impregnable except from the N, on a promontory overlooking a glen 100ft in depth. Two segmental ramparts have been drawn, with external trenches, across the neck of the promontory towards the NE.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 1909.
This camp has been well peopled; a few years ago the hearthstones of the huts were ploughed up. They were of sandstone, and bore signs of great heat. In the kitchen midden, at the outer edges, numbers of limpet and periwinkle shells were found, with split animal bones, horses' teeth etc. There was a spring within the camp.
J Hardy 1887.
Most of this promontory has been removed by recent quarrying, the only indications now being a shallow depression in an arable field on the NE where the two ramparts and ditches are said to have been; these ramparts have been ploughed out.
Visited by OS(JLD) 28 October 1954.
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS(NKB) 22 December 1965.
This promontory fort has been destroyed. Hardy may be referring to vitrified rock.
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.
