article_snippet.sent: A remote Iron Age fort built by the Picts as a look out post on top of a 20-foot-high sea stack has been uncovered on Scottish coast.
article_snippet.sent: Archaeologists believe the stronghold, which would have been cut off from the land at high tide, may have been one of a number that lined Scottish coastScotland.
article_snippet.sent: The Picts said it appeared that despite it position, the fort had been lived in for extended periods and so must have been an important building.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Noble said it was possible the fort had been built there to help the Pictish tribes living there dominate the sea in the area.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Noble said: ‘It is possible that there was a series of forts along the coast. '
article_snippet.sent: The Picts were known as sea raiders and forts like this may have helped cement that naval power.
article_snippet.sent: Resupplying the fort when it was inhabited would have been a challenge.
article_snippet.sent: youths also found post holes and the remains of a hearth that appears to have been within a house built inside the fort on Dunnicaer.
article_snippet.sent: The researchers also found evidence for post holes (above) that were used in the fort ramparts during the dig .
highlights_snippet.sent: Ancient fort was built on 20-foot sea stack near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Experts believe it may have been one of a line of forts along Scottish coast .