Field Visit
Date 9 July 1914
Event ID 1102877
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Dun Stuigh, Great Bernera.
On the northern rocky shore of Great Bernera, looking out to the island of Little Bernera and across the mouth of East Loch Roag to Carloway, is a narrow rocky promontory, with its extremity almost cut off by a deep cleft in the rock, which makes it difficult of access. On the summit of this almost isolated rock, about 40 yards from its southern margin and some 30 feet from its northern extremity, at an elevation of about 30 feet above the high-watermark, are the remains of a circular dun of drystone masonry, probably a broch, Dun Stuidh, measuring 45 feet in diameter externally and 26 feet inside, the wall varying from 9 to 10 feet in thickness. The outer face of the wall is traceable all round except to the north-east, and the best preserved part, to the south-east , shows only 3 feet in height of building in position; the interior is filled with tumbled stones. The doorway has possibly been in the north-eastern arc towards the loch, there being slight indications of built jambs 3 feet 3 inches apart at this place.
A gallery in the body of the wall can be traced at different places; at the south-east a short length of the outer part of the wall, 2 feet 10 inches thick, remains in position, and in the northern arc a part of the inner portion of the wall shows a thickness of 4 feet , but the stones are here slightly displaced, and the original thickness must have been rather less.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 9 July 1914.
OS map: Lewis xvii (unnoted)
