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We examined the rest of the coast carefully, but only found one other 

 fort at Doon, and that of considerable interest from the skilful adaptation 

 of natural features. It lies just to the west of the curious outcrop of rock, 

 the upturned edges of which have been channelled into great furrow-like 

 hollows. It ends in a formidable precipice at a little stream gully. 



Doon-Ooghaniska (0. S. 84). — From the edge of this channelled rock 

 we look across a deep narrow creek to a high headland, with a surrounding 

 mound, and two hut sites, justifying the name "Doon" attached to it. It 

 lies between two creeks, each with a waterfall at the end, which probably 

 helped to cut back the rock. From this circumstance one is called Ooghaniska, 

 which I adopt to qualify the fort-name. Between these the headland runs 

 southward, falling to a low grassy neck. The clay bank has been cut down 

 in stages 3 feet to 5 feet high, to a slope 21 feet wide, and then we find 

 another terrace 6 feet wide and 3 feet high, rising from a partly formed 

 fosse 9 feet wide. This runs E. N. E. and W. S. W. The next platform, 



3 feet to 4 feet high, is mainly natural, and rises into a sharp peak, 



8 feet higher. Behind this another fosse, running nearly east and west, 

 now somewhat filled, and only 3 feet deep, has been cut between the 

 rocks, and is 9 feet wide. Thence a tower of rock, partly girt by a thin 

 wall, rises with a narrow and dangerous path (a mere goat-track, but 

 cut in the rock) beside it on the west. This leads up to the platform. 

 The level summit is fenced on all sides by a wall of earth and stones, 



9 feet thick next the land, but 5 feet to 6 feet elsewhere, and rarely over 

 3 feet high. The entrance was evidently at the head of the path. Fifty- 

 seven feet southward from it, or 65 feet from the outer face, is a straight 

 traverse, exactly 57 feet long, across the garth. At this point, if we include 

 the walls, the fort is 71 feet wide. Touching the middle traverse in the inner 

 ward is the foundation of an oval house, 21 feet north and south, and 18 feet 

 to 21 feet east and west ; the walls 3 feet to 4 feet thick, of stones and earth. 

 At 15 feet south from the last stood another house, 20 feet north and south 

 by 30 feet east and west, the sides nearly straight, but the corners boldly 

 rounded. The central line meets the rampart at 36 feet south from the hut. 

 There are three terraces, or rather ledges, each a foot high, across the southern 

 end of the platform, about 12 feet apart ; the last is 36 feet distant from the 

 end of the garth, which is slightly rounded, and 33 feet across, east and west, 

 at 9 feet from the end. Below a steep slope of clay, about 15 feet high in 

 parts, the bare rock juts out to the precipice and rugged reefs at the southern 

 end of the headland. The east rampart curves round the north-east rock, from 

 the entrance ; it then curves slightly outward, and then inward, following the 

 edge. At this second curve the face has fallen away for nearly 25 feet along 



