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<< Our Photo Pages >> Brown Caterthun - Stone Fort or Dun in Scotland in Angus

Submitted by Anonymous on Monday, 11 November 2002  Page Views: 7992

Multi-periodSite Name: Brown Caterthun
Country: Scotland County: Angus Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Nearest Town: Brechin  Nearest Village: Tigerton
Map Ref: NO5555366871  Landranger Map Number: 44
Latitude: 56.791253N  Longitude: 2.729198W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Brown Caterthun submitted by cosmic : Ramparts in sunshine to left (Vote or comment on this photo)
Stone Fort or Dun in Angus

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Brown Caterthun submitted by h_fenton : Brown Caterthun viewed from the Southwest (from the ramparts of White Caterthun). 4 May 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Brown Caterthun submitted by SandyG : Brown Caterthun rampart in the foreground with White Caterthun hillfort beyond. View from north east (16th October 2013). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Brown Caterthun submitted by cosmic : Sign describing both (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Brown Caterthun submitted by cosmic : Viewed from White Caterthun (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Caterthuns hillforts are part of a single entity by coldrum on Thursday, 01 October 2009
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Caterthuns hillforts are part of a single entity

Visitors to two Iron Age monuments in Angus (Scotland) at the weekend
had the rare opportunity of taking a guided walk of the sites. The
tour of the Brown and White Caterthuns, about four miles north-east of
Brechin, was organised by Historic Scotland as part of Archaeology
Month, which runs throughout September. The hill forts perch on top of
two prominent hills between Brechin and Edzell and are protected by
systems of earthworks and ditches.
Until recently they had been considered as two separate sites
but a report, commissioned by Historic Scotland and published last
year, revealed there are more similarities between them than was
thought. Archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that they are
part of a single unit. The findings were the results of investigations
carried out at the 2,000-year-old forts over three years.
Historic Scotland senior archaeologist Richard Strachan led the
tour on Saturday and explained why the study was carried out. He said:
"This extensive fieldwork project gave us a much better understanding
of these two great enclosure sites on neighbouring hills, and it
enabled us to re-evaluate our interpretation of their history. We now
know that the forts were occupied for much of the first millennium BCE
and probably functioned as ceremonial centres. We concluded,
therefore, that the two sites should actually be considered together,
arguably even as parts of a single entity. We now have a much greater
insight into these wonderful ancient sites and a better appreciation
of them, but there are still things that we don't know about them and
more to discover about the Caterthuns."

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Brown Caterthun by cosmic on Saturday, 19 November 2005
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It is probably best viewed from the White Caterthun. On the ground itself there didn't seem to be anything worth photographing.
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