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No. 68 -- FORTS -- No. 68

[Plan Inserted]
Fig. 7. Fort, Dumyat (No. 68)

between 40 ft. and 65 ft. from D to the N. side of the
entrance. where it is 40 ft. outside the similar point in D.
It resumes on the S. side of the entrance only 22 ft. from
D, however, and continues thence at about the same
interval, past the end of the latter, to die out 60 ft. further
on, on the crest of a natural rocky slope. On each side of
the entrance the walls D and E are linked by lines of
rubble which probably represent ruined walls. Attached
to the outside of wall E there are two enclosures, one
on either side of the entrance, bounded partly by natural
slopes and partly by ruined walls (F and G) only 3 ft. 6 in.
in thickness. The northernmost enclosure is itself sub-
divided by a similar wall.
The chronological relationship between the two main
elements present in this fort - the enclosure defined by
wall A, and the double walls D and E - is not apparent
from the superficial remains and can only be established
by excavation. When the plan of the fort was first
published, ¹ it was assumed that the work was a unitary
one, walls D and E being the contemporary outer
defences of a "citadel" formed by wall A. The sub-
sequent discovery in Stirlingshire of large numbers of
duns, similar in plan to the "citadel", suggests however

1 Feachem, R. W., "Fortifications", in The Problem of the
Picts, ed. Wainwright, F. T. (1955), 77.

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