Doon Hill is a place of great historical and archaeological
importance. It was excavated in the sixties by Dr Brian Hope Taylor
and is believed to have seen three periods of occupation. The
earliest usage was as a cremation cemetery and there may have been
a small temple in the Northern enclosure. In 500-600AD a great hall
was built, presumably for a British chief.
This was replaced by an Anglo-Saxon dwelling and there were
burials discovered from this phase of occupation. Local legend has
it that this was a place where the witches danced in the 16th
Century, although another states that this was where witches were
executed and the pile of stones that lies north of the fort is said
to represent the number of witches burnt here. There are rather a
lot of them…
I have given three choices of parking places for this cache as
the roads get steadily worse the nearer you get. But how easy do
you want it? After all, everywhere you go around here is doon
hill!
