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Aerial view of Dun Dearduil, Inverfaigaig, Loch Ness, looking NW.

DP 342757

Description Aerial view of Dun Dearduil, Inverfaigaig, Loch Ness, looking NW.

Date 26/3/2012

Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

Catalogue Number DP 342757

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content View of two forts at Dun Dearduil, one below the other. At the top is Canmore ID 12567: Occupying the summit of a cliff-girt ridge named Dun Dearduil is a fort, said by the RCAHMS (Information from RCAHMS to OS 1957) to be vitrified. It is sub rectangular on plan, measuring 26.0m NNE-SSW by a maximum of 15.0m within a tumbled turf-covered wall surviving to an average height of 0.8m. Below and to the W of this fort is: Canmore ID 12569: on the W shoulder of a cliff-girt ridge named Dun Dearduil, and about 80.0m from the fort occupying the summit of the ridge (see NH52SW 2) is another fort, described by Wallace (T Wallace 1910) as a circular enclosure of stones. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2020/58

External Reference D2543

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2107126

File Format (JPG) JPEG bitmap

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