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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 725401
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/725401
NX18NW 12 1160 8515.
(NX 1160 8515) Duniewick (NAT) Camp (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
A fort occupies the summit of Duniewick, a steep-sided isolated crag at the foot of Knockdolian. It consists of an earthen rampart, up to 1.5m high, which runs along the edge of the summit and encloses an area 24m E-W by 22 m transversely. At the foot of the crag on the N and W is a rock-cut ditch. There are breaks in the rampart in the N and NE but these are secondary, the entrance being on the W where a causeway crosses the ditch and a rocky path leads to the summit. The interior is featureless.
Visited by OS (JD) 24 July 1956
The total absence of stone in the rampart and the basal ditch do not support Feachem's (1963) suggestion that this is a dun.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (JP) 22 December 1970
No change from previous field reports. The rough-pastured interior of the fort is covered with mole casts which produced several fragments of bone, some burnt, and three small sherds of crude undiagnostic pottery. A flint pebble scraper was also found in a cast.
Visited by OS (JRL) 24 March 1977
