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Remains of fort and Broch. The fort is oval, measuring circa 400 ft by 200 ft, within the ruin of a wall 30 ft thick. The faces of the wall are of large carefully-laid blocks and the core of rubble, in which considerable quantities of vitrified stone have been noted. An outer wall of the same character, but not so thick, covers either end of the fort, and a third is added on the south-west. Before the excavations in the 1860s the fort had many cartloads of stone removed, the walls were apparently five feet higher than at present. The broch, 35ft in diameter within a 16ft wall, is now very much robbed and overgrown. The whole summit is mutilated and landscaped in the late nineteenth century and sitting on it are four ruined ornamental structures apparently of recent origin. At least three cup-marked stones were found during the nineteenth century excavations, one had 16 cups and another a cup with three rings. The third stone is now lost. Many finds of bones, both human and animal, were made during the clearing and excavations. A bronze spiral finger-ring was found within the fort in the twentieth century. Within the fort is a 'bone house' circular in plan with a domed roof which is presumed to have been built circa 1836 to house bones excavated when the garden of Laws mansion was formed. The OS 2nd edition also shows a lookout tower within the fort.
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
Angus
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NO43SE0007 - LAWS OF MONIFIETH