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Field Visit
Date June 1983
Event ID 1102629
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1102629
This dun occupies the summit of a flat-topped ridge to the SW of the house at the centre of Eilean Righ and about 800m SW of NM80SW 5. Roughly circular on plan, a shape largely dictated by the ridge, the dun is aligned NE and SW. The NW side has fallen away, but much of the basal course of the wall survives elsewhere, indicating that the dun measured 18m by 13m within a wall about 3m in thickness. The stones of the outer face are large irregular boulders, and the entrance has probably been the gap on the NE, where one possible outer corner-stone remains.
In the S angle of the dun wall there is an oval structure measuring 6m by 5m internally within a wall 0.5m thick; one slab of the entrance survives. Without excavation it is not possible to tell whether this structure is contemporary with the dun or not.
Visited June 1983
RCAHMS 1988
