Brown and White Caterthuns
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Take in the spectacular views from two of the most impressive Iron Age hilltop enclosures in Scotland.
The Brown and White Caterthuns are a pair of large hill forts sitting about 1 kilometre apart on adjacent hills overlooking Strathmore. Both are enclosed by a series of earthworks. They probably had multiple functions, serving both as military and ceremonial centres. They could be seen as one site with two summits.
The remains of the Caterthuns we see today probably date to about the first millennium BC. Artefacts found at the White Caterthun from the 1800s reveal that the site probably had earlier significance in the Neolithic period and Bronze Age.
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