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Creag Phitiulais
Dun (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Creag Phitiulais
Classification Dun (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 15403
Site Number NH91SW 1
NGR NH 9299 1390
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Abernethy And Kincardine
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH91SW 1 9299 1390.
(NH 9302 1390) A dun on Craig Phitiulais half a mile ESE of Pityoulish farmhouse. It is 30' x 20' within the ruin of a substantial wall, which must originally have been about 11' in thickness. The entrance is on the SW (Feachem 1963). Cash said that the fort, of dry stone masonry, was almost completely ruined and nothing stood above 4' high (Cash 1910).
C G Cash 1910; R W Feachem 1963.
Situated on a knoll at the NE end of Creag Phitiulais, are the remains of dun, oval on plan, measuring internally c.9.0m E-W by 8.0m N-S. Both wall faces are visible except in the W arc, giving a wall thickness of 3.0m with indications of it widening to c.4.0m in the W, where a gap in the tumble probably indicates the entrance, of which no details survive. No intra-mural or interior features can be seen. Recent shelters have been built in the tumble on the E side. No name is known locally.
Visited by OS (N K B) 19 September 1969.
This dun was noted during a pre-afforestation survey at Craig Pityoulish and Craiggowrie. It measures about 8m in diameter within a wall spread up to 4.5m in width and standing up to 0.5m in height. Later shelters have been built into the wall on the N and E.
Visited by T Holden and M Dalland (Headland Archaeology) 25 June 1999.
NMRS, MS/899/170, no.12a.
Field Visit (23 July 1957)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Marginal Land Survey (1950-1962), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, are available to view online - see the searchable PDF in 'Digital Items'. These vary from short notes, to lengthy and full descriptions. Contemporary plane-table surveys and inked drawings, where available, can be viewed online in most cases - see 'Digital Images'. The original typecripts, notebooks and drawings can also be viewed in the RCAHMS search room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 19 July 2013.
Reference (1963)
This site is noted in the ‘List of monuments discovered during the survey of marginal land (1956-8)’, published in Vol. 1 of the RCAHMS Inventory of Stirlingshire. The 26 monuments were listed by their name, classification, parish and county, and the list also includes an indication of whether they had been planned (P), whether they were visible only as a cropmark (C), and whether they were worthy of preservation (*).
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 30 October 2012.
