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Field survey of Dun Mor
Date March 1993 - August 1993
Event ID 966161
Category Recording
Type Archaeological Evaluation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/966161
A survey of the rock outcrop (MS 625/35) was carried out by the CFA between March and August 1993.
T Neighbour and M Wilson, CFA, 1993.
A survey was conducted in order to produce a plan for an interpretative noticeboard to be erected by the Forestry Commission. The numbers in parentheses within the following text refer to the plan in DES 1993.
The archaeological features within the survey area represent the use of Dun Mor as a defended settlement, possibly spanning a number of periods. Place name evidence and local tradition suggest that Dark Age fortification once occupied the summit. Features (7) and (9) may represent the remains of this, although this suggestion must remain at best tentative. With the information currently available it is difficult to date the use of most of the various features with any confidence.
The two arcs of turf-covered wall-footings on the summit (9) may also potentially define a sub-circular structure which may have been a prehistoric dun. This structure has a diameter of 12m, acceptable for a small dun, although at less than 1m thick the walls are very narrow. A series of low turf-covered stone banks (6, 7 and 10) and a mound (12) in this case may be outworks.
A series of natural terraces to the N and S of the summit (2, 13 and 14) appear to have been artificailly enhanced, with definite traces of revetting walls (1) filling natural fissures in the bedrock to create the most southerly example (2).
The platforms and summit are approached and linked by a series of trackways and hollow-ways (3, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 17). The most striking example is that which approaches the summit from the S (3). A pair of orthostats (4) and a line of associated recumbent stones (5) located close to the summit appear to act as an entrance to the defended settlement.
Sponsor: Historic Settlement.
CFA 1993.
