H:BURGHEAD,PICTISH ROYAL CENTRE AND STRONGHOLD,c. AD 750 The most impressive of all Pictish fortifications, the large promontory fort at Burghead was a multivallate fort,with the fortifications spanning the neck of the small headland, enclosing an area of approximately 28,000 square metres (2.8 hectares,or seven acres). This area was divided by an earthen bank into two sections–one higher and slightly smaller than the other
