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Craigmill
Fort (Prehistoric)
Site Name Craigmill
Classification Fort (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 34495
Site Number NO53NE 16
NGR NO 5755 3599
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/34495
- Council Angus
- Parish Panbride
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO53NE 16 5755 3599
This monument comprises the remains of a fort represented by cropmarks visible on oblique aerial photographs; it lies in arable farmland at around 25m OD. The D-shaped fort consists of two concentric ramparts, the ditches of which measure about 2m (outer) and 4m (inner) wide, enclosing an area some 100m across. The W edge of the fort is defined by the adjacent Craigmill Burn.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 4 March 1997.
Information to follow.
RCAHMS (KB) 2 May 2000
NO 57516 35964 The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) commissioned a watching brief on the machine
excavation a 5 x 2m pit created to facilitate the drilling of a groundwater borehole on the bank of a burn to the NE of
Carnoustie. The site lay immediately to the W of and below a cliff-top fortified settlement of later prehistoric date, and it was thought that occupation debris from this settlement might have been deposited on the stream bank below. The groundworks were monitored on 22 February 2007. No finds were made and no archaeological features were exposed.
Archive deposited with RCAHMS.
Funder: Entec UK Ltd.
Chris Fyles, 2007.
Watching Brief (22 February 2007)
NO 57516 35964 The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) commissioned a watching brief on the machine excavation a 5 x 2m pit created to facilitate the drilling of a groundwater borehole on the bank of a burn to the NE of Carnoustie. The site lay immediately to the W of and below a cliff-top fortified settlement of later prehistoric date, and it was thought that occupation debris from this settlement might have been deposited on the stream bank below. The groundworks were monitored on 22 February 2007. No finds were made and no archaeological features were exposed.
Archive deposited with RCAHMS.
Funder: Entec UK Ltd.
Note (26 May 2015 - 31 May 2016)
This small fortification forms a D-shaped enclosure backing onto the E bank of a shallow stream gully just upstream from where the public road crosses the burn at Craigmill. It measures about 50m from N to S along the chord formed by the lip of the gully by 25m transversely (0.12ha) within two concentric ditches set about 6m apart. The inner ditch is between 3m and 4m in breadth and the outer no more than 2m, and making some allowance for the presence of an internal rampart the interior probably extended to little more than 0.8ha. The ditches are most clearly defined on the N, where they terminate short of the edge of the gully to leave an entrance about 8m wide. The ring-ditch of at least one timber round-house can be seen at the N end of the interior.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3077
Aerial Photographic Transcription (28 July 2017)
An interpretative transcription, or mapping, of information on oblique aerial photographs was produced on 28 July 2017.
