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Field Visit
Date 13 July 1914
Event ID 1102554
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1102554
Dun Eistean, Port of Ness.
Dun Eistean is a tidal islet about ¾ mile north-north-west of Port of 'Ness, rising some 60 feet above the sea and separated from the land by a rocky chasm, the grass-covered plateau on the summit being reached with difficulty even at low water. The plateau reaches its highest point near its northern extremity , and, here are the remains of a rectangular stone building 10 feet in height, overgrown with grass, lying east south-east and 115 degrees west-north-west, and measuring 24 feet in length by 18 feet 6 inches in breadth externally. Some 35 yards south of the building is an artificial pond banked on the east and excavated on the west, which showed some moisture at its lowest part. About 80 yards from the house, along the edge of the cleft in the rock to the south, are the remains of a parapet of stone and earth, 6 feet wide and 1 ½ feet -high, behind which are the foundations of a group of small huts impinging on one another. There is an oval enclosure, 29 feet in length and 13 feet in breadth internally, within which are a hut circle 6 ½ feet in diameter and three other small oval compartments.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 13 July 1914.
