Field Visit
Date 20 August 1915
Event ID 1103419
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1103419
Dun, Loch an Duin.
Towards the northern end of Loch an Duin, about 3/8 mile north-east of Dun Torcuill (NF87SE 3), is a small rocky islet, rising about 3 feet above the water and lying some 50 yards from the eastern shore of the loch, to which it is connected by a deeply submerged causeway with a rather zigzag course. Towards the landward end of the causeway there are indications of a break, about a yard across, possibly intentional. The islet is oval and is surrounded at the water's edge by a ring of tumbled stones, evidently the remains of a defensive wall which is entirely destroyed except perhaps on the western side, where outside a small rock there seems to be one course of the outer face of the wall. The dun measures some 43 feet from east to west and 34 feet from north to south.
RCAHSM 1928, visited 20 August 1915.
OS map: North Uist xxxi (unnoted).
