Dunnideer & Its Three Fortresses, G.M. Fraser: Paperback: 1927: Lecture

Dunnideer & Its Three Fortresses

By G. M. Fraser, Librarian, Public Library, Aberdeen.

Published by W. Jolly & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen, 1927. First edition. Paperback, 68 pages. 

CONDITION
Overall acceptable condition - see photos. Wear/fading/marks to paperback cover, no tears. Foxing to head/fore/bottom edges, end papers and a few pages throughout. Name in ink to frontispiece. No other names or writing.

This paper on Dunnideer and its forts was given as a lecture to the Aberdeen Natural History on and Antiquarian Society, 20th November, 1925, and to the Mutual Improvement Society of Insch - the parish in which Dunnideer Hill is situated - on 14th December, 1926. Requests for permission to print the lecture were received from the people of Insch and from a periodical in Aberdeen, but it seemed preferable to publish independently, hence the appearance of the paper in its present form.

Aberdeenshire is not so rich in hill-forts as certain other counties in Scotland, but of those that we do possess some are extraordinarily significant. The great fort on the Mither Tap of Bennachie, for example, is in a class by itself-as also (for Scotland), the ancient roadway on Bennachie, "The Maiden Causeway," leading up to the fort. The equally remarkable fort on Tap O' Noth may be set down as the finest example known of a vitrified fort. But
Dunnideer hill stands alone, too, in having-easily to be seen, even without excavations examples of the successive cultures represented in the primitive earthwork fort, the later vitrified fort (latest of the Gaelic period), and the remains of the feudal castle which entirely displaced the others, both in construction and use, and stands as the type of the post-Conquest culture, still in progress. 

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