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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 727483
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/727483
NX69SW 8 6064 9072
(NX 6068 9070) Earthwork (NAT)
OS 6" map (1909)
The greater part of this earthwork has been destroyed by raising the level of the Water of Deugh to form a reservoir (RCAHMS MSS., visited 1951). When seen by the RCAHMS (1914, visited 1911) and Coles, it was described as occupying a very strong site, within a wood, except for a short distance in the N. It was lozenge-shaped on plan measuring 180 x 150ft internally. The SW and SE sides were defended by perpendicular cliffs and the other two sides were defended by triple ramparts and ditches. The entrance was in the NE, 77ft from the E angle.
Sections were cut through the inner rampart by Childe. No indications of habitation were found in the small areas excavated, some fragments of bone, two flint chips and a minute fragment of what may have been a pot were found. (The site and description of this feature is comparable with Borness Batteries: NX64SW 2- promontory fort).
F R Coles 1892; V G Childe 1936
The scant remains of this probable promontory fort comprise the denuded remnants of triple ramparts, curving a distance of 55.0m across a low promontory on Loch Kendoon. The remains probably relate to the central NW arc of the ramparts shown on Coles plan. Where best preserved on the E edge of the promontory, a truncated double rampart has a maximum height of 2.1m above the medial ditch. In section, both ramparts are constructed of a large stone core with earth/rubble capping. To the W, the work fades and is spread to a maximum height of 1.0m; at no one point does the line of all three ramparts survive.
The work is threatened by the constructional development of a fish farm on this site.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (JRL) 29 August 1978.
(Name cited as Carminnow). Descheduled: formerly scheduled as serial no. 1057.
Information from Historic Scotland, certificate of exclusion from scheduling dated 14 December 1994.
