Oblique aerial view.
C 25023
Description Oblique aerial view.
Date 1994
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number C 25023
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 395941, SC 1755606
Scope and Content Dun known as Castle Haven, Dumfries and Galloway Castle Haven is the only example of a galleried dun in the Dumfries and Galloway area. The design is more usual in Argyll and the Western Isles. James Brown of Knockbrex, the local laird, financed excavations and substantial restoration work in 1905. Roughly D-shaped on plan, the dun has galleried drystone walls (chambers within its walls) up to 5m thick. The dun stands within an outer couryard of similar plan but with narrower walls, now much reduced. Essentially duns were fortified homesteads, built between the later 1st millennium BC and the earlier 1st millennium AD. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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