Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Field Visit
Date 14 May 1993
Event ID 738738
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/738738
NK14SW 65 1316 4126
What are probably the remains of a fort are situated 500m to the S of the ruins of Boddam Castle (NK14SW 2), on the large rocky stack known as Dundonnie. The top of the stack, which is clothed in tussocky grass, measures about 160m from NNE to SSW by 60m transversely, and is defined on all sides by precipitous slopes and sheer cliffs. The only means of access is provided by a narrow coll midway along the landward side, but this line of approach is dominated by a single rampart set on the lip of the stack. The rampart, which has been reduced to a bank up to 3m in thickness and no more than 0.9m in height, can be traced along most of this side of the stack, but in places a later turf dyke appears to have been superimposed upon its line. A block of masonry, identified on the 1:2500 map as a seat, which stands on the highest point of the interior, has been built upon the boulder footings of a probable L-shaped building, whose main compartment measures about 10m by 5m over all. Traces of a second building, measuring 11m by 5m over all, can be detected on the seaward side of the stack, close to its northern tip.
Visited by RCAHMS (SH) 14 May 1993.
