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Harris, Dun Vee
Natural Feature (Period Unknown)
Site Name Harris, Dun Vee
Classification Natural Feature (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 10692
Site Number NG19SE 1
NGR NG 1661 9188
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10692
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Harris
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG19SE 1 1661 9188.
(NG 1661 9188) Dun Vee (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)
This it the traditional site of Dun Vee, but there is no evidence of a dun ever having existed here.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.
No trace of a dun. The name Dun Vee refers to a narrow rocky headland on which bare rock faces form a natural defence. (It appears to be these faces which are shown as a hard line circle on OS 6"map, 1903)
Visited by OS (N K B) 29 June 1969.
Field Visit (20 July 1914)
DUn Vee, Loch Grosebay.
On the summit of a high rocky promontory on the northern shore of Loch Grosebay, a mile east-south-east of the township of Grosebay, is the traditional site of Dun Vee, but there is no evidence of a dun ever having existed here.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 20 July 1914.
OS map: Harris xix.
