Drummondreach

NH55NE 6 5817 5756.

(NH 5817 5756) Fort (NR) (Supposed)

OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)

Fort, Drummondreoch: An irregular area c.54' in diameter is surrounded by a stone wall. Built on two raised terraces which may be partly artificial, at the edge of a steep drop to the Castle Burn. There are two gaps in the wall, but only the S entrance seems original.

A A Woodham 1956

A robbed dun, sub-circular on plan, on the NE brink of a gully and in a wood. It measures c. 20.0m WNW-ESE by c. 18.0m between the centres of a denuded stone wall spread to c. 3.5m. No wall faces are evident. The wall has been destroyed by quarrying in the SW and the entrance is not evident.

The dun is defended in the E, N and W by two curving ditches with medial rampart, all in a poor state of preservation except where they terminate on the gully. Here the ditches are about 8.0m wide, and the rampart about 6.0m wide. The entrance through the outer defences may have been in the E, where there appears to be an access path round the wall of the dun.

The outworks have been mutilated by a track in the NW, probably to facilitate robbing.

Surveyed at 1:2500. (Visited by OS (N K B) 19 January 1965)

Visited by OS (R L) 1 December 1970

This has been a desk assessment area.

J Wordsworth, SSSIs, Scottish Natural Heritage, 1993.