Maxwell, G. S. (1969). Duns and forts - a note on some Iron Age monuments of the Atlantic Province. In: n.e. Scot Archaeol Forum 1969. pp. 41-52.
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Duns and forts - a note on some Iron Age monuments of the Atlantic Province | |||||||||
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Scot Archaeol Forum 1969 | |||||||||
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Scot Archaeol Forum | |||||||||
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41 - 52 | |||||||||
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Difficulties have arisen in the past over the definitions of the stone-walled structures known as duns and forts (historical survey in appendix). These difficulties are resolved by proposing a criterion of size: duns enclose areas of up to 4000 sq ft (at least 375 examples in Scotland), while larger structures are termed small forts. Duns are most densely concentrated in Kintyre, where there is a ratio of duns to small forts of 5 to 1. Dun situations are conspicuous rather than markedly defensive, and, consequently, additional outworks for protection often occur. Duns are normally sub-circular or sub-oval in plan, and possess checked or rebated entrance-passages, mural galleries, stairs and cells (despite relatively thin walls in comparison with brochs). The walls are sometimes timber-laced, and several examples show evidence for timber structures built against the inner wall-face. The dating of duns remains a problem; timber-laced sites may be as early as the 7th century BC, but most untimbered duns seem to belong to the first and second centuries AD. A R | |||||||||
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1969 | |||||||||
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