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Remains of a hillfort, an elongated, heavily vitrified, timber-laced fort within which lies a well. The fort measures about 152.4m by a maximum of 36.6m internally. Excavations carried out in 1933-4 by Childe (1935) showed that the wall was about 6.1m thick and that it stood 3.6m internally and 4.87m externally beneath the grass-grown rubble. There was a row of dwellings with hearths under the shelter of the north wall. Pot-making, spinning and metal-working were carried out in the lee of the south wall. The finds, including gritty plain potsherds, stone whorls, flints, an iron ring, and a thick jet ring, are in the NMAS. A massive cistern was excavated at the east end to a depth of some 6.3m. In 1966 MacKie dug two trenches against the inner faces of the north and south ramparts, and three radio-carbon dates were obtained indicating that the fort was in use from the 7th century BC until at least the late 5th or early 4th century before being destroyed. Fragments of vitrified and unvitrified material from this fort are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. A squarish piece of sandstone, 28cm by 25cm, bearing a cup and a groove mark surrounded by two concentric rings, found on the ground surface below the end of the rampart of Finavon fort is in Dundee Museum. The fort has recently been resurveyed. Site visit in 2025 by Radco noted evidence of burnt timbers and a blackened stone with woodlike, tree ring patterns suggesting residue from vitrification.
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NO55NW0032 - FINAVON