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Field Visit
Date 7 June 1909
Event ID 1095765
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1095765
An Dun, Loch Ardbhair. This broch or dun stands on an isolated rock at. the S. end of Loch Ardbhair on its east shore, about 100 feet from the mainland, to which it is connected by a rough roadway of boulders, now in part displaced. The broch is only approachable at low tide, and at high water there is little space between the edge of the rock and the base of the building. It is a circular dry-built construction with an interior diameter of 24', the wall being 10' 6" thick near the base. The entrance passage is from the S. , is only 2' wide at the interior end, and remains to a height of 3' 6" on the left side. The exterior end is not measurable. Of the outside wall only one or two of the lowest courses of the building remain visible in places, and the rest is concealed by ruins. The interior· has probably been cleared of debris, and there the wall exists to a height of 7' 4". There are no signs of chambers in the wall, nor of galleries; the building is poor; the stones are not carefully selected and laid, and the numerous interstices are packed with small angular fragments.
OS 6-inch map: Sutherland Sheet xlix.
RCAHMS 1911, visited (AOC) 7th June 1909.
