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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 724448
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/724448
NX64NE 14 6574 4883.
(NX 6574 4883) Doon (NR)
OS &2 map (1957)
An enigmatic structure.
RCAHMS TS., 12 May 1952; F R Coles 1893
Situated within a plantation on Doon Hill is a horse-shoe shaped fort which terminates on a near precipitous slope to the S. It consists of a single earth and stone rampart with ditch and counterscarp bank enclosing an area measuring 52m NW-SE by 58m transversely. Within the rampart is a ditch formed by scarping the central raised area. There is no indication of a bank along the edge of the interior. The entrance is not clear but was probably in the SW. A break in the rampart in the W is not accompanied by a break in the counterscarp bank.
The name 'Doon' is still used locally.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (JP) 5 February 1971.
