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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 730393
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/730393
NX98NW 6 9291 8698.
(NX 9291 8698) Camp (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
A vitrified fort occupies the summit of Mullach, a prominent hill (listed as a beacon stance in 1448, in the Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, 716). The fort is oval in shape, having two concentric walls about 30m apart. The enclosed area measures about 91m by 74m and several masses of vitrified stone are visible in the rubble ruins of the walls. A narrow gap through the walls in the SE probably indicates an entrance. The site, which has not been excavated, is likely to date from some time between the 8th and 4th centuries BC.
E W MacKie 1975; RCAHMS 1920, visited 1913
The remains of this fort, in an area formerly afforested and now covered in dense bracken, comprises two concentric stone walls 28.0m apart. The inner wall, enclosing an oval area 110.0m E-W by 120.0m transversely is visible only in the southern half as a grassed-over stony scarp 0.3m high. The better preserved outer walls survives in the southern half as a grassy bank 2.0m wide and 0.5m high and in the northern half as a slight scarp and parch mark.
No vitrified stone was seen in either of the walls nor were any facing stones visible. The entrance in the SE is obscured by bracken.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (TRG) 19 August 1976
