Most archaeologists now consider that vitrified forts are the product of deliberate destruction either following the capture of the site by an enemy force or by the occupants at the end of its active life as an act of ritual closure.
22.
On the coast of Loch Nell, or Ardmucknish Bay, is the vitrified fort of Beregonium, not to be confounded with Rerigonium ( sometimes miscalled Berigonium ) on Loch Ryan in Wigtownshire town of the ancient Novantae tribe, identified with Innermessan.
23.
The OS map of the mid-19th century shows a vitrified fort on the heights at the Hallyards and two pre-reformation chapels, one opposite the fort and the other on a hill close to the existing Hillhouse mansion site; no clear evidence remains for these chapels.
