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Remains of a circular homestead or dun. Formerly marked on both the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps as a fort. Subsequently reclassified as a dun (of the small house sub-category) and subsequently regarded as a circular homestead. Schedule entry (amended 2014) describes it as a dun, a later prehistoric defended settlement dating probably to the Iron Age. The OS surveyed it in 1966 when it was noted that it was so robbed and mutilated as to make accurate survey almost impossible. They recorded it as appearing to have been oval, measuring circa 38.0 m east-west by circa 30.0 m north-south. Its walling varying from 5.0 m to 3.5 m wide, with outer facing stones visible on the north-west, but elsewhere the outer edge of the wall is traceable as a scarp circa 3 m high. The entrance was probably in the east. The east-west ridge, on which it is situated, provides natural defences on the north and south and to a lesser extent on the west. Additional defences might have been expected on the east but none are visible, this lack of complete defence adds to the probability of this being a circular homestead, a structure designed for a pastoral economy, to house both livestock and their guardians. It is visible on aerial photographs taken in 1971, held by the RCAHMS and is faintly visible on the vertical aerial photograph overlay on the GIS at the Angus HER.
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NO54NE0005 - DUMBARROW HILL