Craig Hill
Dun (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Craig Hill
Classification Dun (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 64169
Site Number NX66NE 4
NGR NX 6915 6607
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Balmaghie
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX66NE 4 6915 6607.
(NX 6915 6607) Doon (NR)
OS 6" map (1958)
A dun, virtually subrectangular in plan, measuring about 100' along either axis, within the still substantial remains of a wall originally at least 12' thick (R W Feachem 1956). The wall has been robbed and is now a mass of small stones, but the inner face is apparent as a grass-covered ridge separated from the mass of stones by a hollow, 3' wide. The outer face is visible at one spot on the south front. There is an indefinite indication of an entrance near the centre of the south arc.
RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911; F R Coles 1893
As described except that the NW angle has been destroyed.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (EGC) 1 August 1968.
Note (20 December 2013 - 23 May 2016)
This small fortified enclosure is situated on the southern of the twin summits of Craig Hill. Roughly square on plan, it measures about 30m across (0.09ha) within a heavily robbed wall up to 3.5m in thickness, but largely reduced to a spread of stones. The entrance is probably in the middle of the SSE side. Though described by Richard Feachem as a dun (1963, 182), it is considerably larger than the definition employed by RCAHMS in Argyll. Its shape suggests that more appropriate comparisons might be made with rectilinear settlements in Galloway, several of which have substantial perimeter works.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC0260
