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An Dun
Fort (Period Unassigned)
Site Name An Dun
Classification Fort (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Clunie Wood
Canmore ID 26299
Site Number NN95NW 32
NGR NN 9208 5771
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/26299
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Moulin
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN95NW 32 9208 5771.
NN 9208 5771. There is a multivallate fort on An Dun.
Visited by OS (R D) 16 February 1971.
A small fort with two outworks on the hill of An Dun, now planted with conifers. It comprises an earthen rampart, reduced to a scarp and showing an intermittent stone revetment, which surrounds an oval area 26.0m E-W x 20.0m. There is an ill-defined entrance gap in the SW. The outworks are ramparts also reduced to terraces which encircle the NE, NW, and SW arcs and abut on to a cliff in the SE. The entrance through the inner is in the W, and through the outer in the NW, thus making a staggered access to the summit.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (R D) 16 February 1971.
A heat cracked stone with iron slag attached from near the entrance to this fort has been donated to Perth Museum and Art Gallery (Accession no 1988.138).
A G Reid 1988.
Scheduled as Clunie Wood, An Dun fort.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 26 November 2001.
Note (6 January 2015 - 30 May 2016)
This small fortification is situated in forestry on a spur that projects out from the higher ground overlooking Tombane on the W side of the valley at Pitlochry. Oval on plan, it measures about 26m from E to W by 20m transversely (0.04ha) within what is described as an earthen rampart reduced to a scarp with an external stone face. The entrance, which is probably on the W, is covered by a short length of wall or rampart, again reduced to a scarp, while an outer wall or rampart encircles the NE, NW and SW sides, with its ends resting on the lip of the crag that falls away on the SE. The only gap in this outer line is on the NW, creating an oblique approach to the inner enclosure that would have exposed the approaching visitor's left hand side.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 30 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2663
