Building record MAB3198 - DOUNE OF RELUGAS

A small fort on the summit of a knoll.

A small fort on the summit of a knoll. The thickness of the wall is indeterminate but rubble stones suggest timber lacing and some vitrification is evident. The ditch is circa 5.5m wide x 2.0m deep, with outer rampart circa 5.5m wide x 1.5m high. The fort utilises a wooded knoll in a bend of the River Divie. The summit of knoll is level and oval, aligned approximately from northwest to southeast, and is surrounded by a ruinous drystone wall, downslope from which is a revetment. Both features overlie the rampart. There is a gap in the enclosure to the east although the entrance to the fort is unclear. A large stone heap inside the entrance may be part of the ornamental shrubbery which encompasses the fort. Three pieces of vitrified stone were found on date of RCM visit in 1991, two in stone heap and one in the north side of the enclosure wall. To the northeast, north and west the fort is enclosed by a ditch with an external bank. A path from Relugas Lodge cuts a section through the ditch and bank to northwest, exposing an earthen bank. A path runs along the north side of the fort in the ditch, infilling the northeast side of the ditch to some extent before swinging round south and entering the fort from the east.

DONATIONS & PURCHASES, 1861, PSAS 4(1860-1), 378 (Bibliographic reference). SAB376.

BRONZE PIN

COTTON, MA, 1954, ARCH JOURNAL III, 81 (Bibliographic reference). SAB259.

FEACHEM, RW, 1963, PREHISTORIC SCOTLAND, 139-40 (Bibliographic reference). SAB503.

FANNING, LT, 1983, STONE AGE TO THE '45,324-342, 340-41 (Bibliographic reference). SAB524.

Jun 4 1998 , AAS/GR/98/CT292,304, AAS/GR/98/CT292,304 (Ground Photograph). SAB33117.

Jun 4 1998 , GR/98/CT15, GR/98/CT15 (Ground Photograph). SAB31631.

Jun 4 1998 , GR/98/CT18, GR/98/CT18 (Ground Photograph). SAB31632.

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