OS1/17/39/57

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
TORR DHUIN Torr Dhuin
Vitrified Fort
(Remains of)
New Statistical Account
Inverness Guide
Mr Moffet Newtown Near Fort Augustus
Mr Samuel McDonell Cullachy
083 "This is one of the remarkable class of antiquities called Vitrified Forts, peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland (nothing of the like having ever been discovered in any other Country), and is situated on a small conical hill on the west side of the River Oich between Loch Ness & Loch Oich." It is very conspicuous and Commands an extensive view, its east side is protected by a precipitous rock which desends [descends] almost perpendicular from the summit to the base of the hill; round its west and south side which is unguarded by nature extends the rampart or vitrified walls. "Partial vitrifaction extends along the walls, but the fused matter sometimes extends to three or four feet from the surface. The theory most reconcilable with the appearances is, that these sites were places at once for defence and becon fires, and in many instances necessiated [necessitated] by the Norsemen 800 to 1000 years ago, though just as probably reaching back to pre-historic times but continuing in use for Gathering places for the Clans."
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