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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 725776
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/725776
NX45SE 3 4979 5444
Fort (R W Feachem 1956). The promontory, Doon of Carsluith is cut off on the north by a wall 8' thick and now greatly robbed, with a central entrance 9' wide. About 36" behind the wall, at its centre and converging slightly towards the east, is a bold rampart 16" thick at base and showing indications of having been originally surrounded by an inner wall. This also is broken by an entrance about the centre of its course. The steep flanks of the promontory have not been defended, but on the shape of the west side there are two distinct terraces, which may be natural. There appears to have been a track passing up the north slope of the ridge and entering the enceinte at the SW corner.
RCAHMS 1914; R W Feachem 1956.
NX 4980 5443 The fort on Doon of Carsluith is sub-rectangular and measures internally about 130.0m NW-SE by 90.0 transversely.
The defences comprise an outer rampart along the NE side, terminating above a steep outcrop at the N end but fading, midway towards the SE, to a scarp (with a berm) at the foot of natural slopes and an inner rampart, visible as such on the NW, N and NE but reduced elsewhere to a scarp, particularly weak on the SW and SE. There are no internal features.
Both lines of defence, where visible as ramparts, exhibit a mass of stone, but only the occasional stone is visible elsewhere. It is not possible to determine whether the defences were of stone or earth-and-stone. The entrance is in the N corner. A second break in the inner rampart to the W is probably a mutilation.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 26 August 1970
