Archaeology Notes

Event ID 728829

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX87NE 7 8698 7699

(NX 8698 7699) The Doons (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

Fort, 'The Doons': The fort on the summit of Doon Hill, measures 190' N-S by 214' within a steeply scarped bank, above which there seems to have been a stony rampart, now supplanted by a stone wall. The scarp is well-defined all round, except to the S, where it is only c. 1' high; passing round to the W, it rises to 7' or 8' in height, maintaining this height to the E end. In the interior rises from within the rampart to a central area 7'-8' higher.

RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911

This fort is generally as described. An internal quarry ditch is visible and the entrance is on the S. The rocky interior is featureless.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (DWR), 19 November 1973

'The Doons' (L Symondson, Barnsoul, Shawhead) ) is as described in the previous information.

Surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (TRG), 30 May 1977.