Field Visit
Date 22 May 1915
Event ID 1104684
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Dun Edinbain.
On the hillside above the south-eastern extremity of Edinbain township, at an elevation of about 350 feet above sea level, and built near the edge of a slight rocky bluff on the face of a terrace, is the fragment of a broch. Only the outer ring of the foundations and a very short length of the inner face of the wall on the east are traceable. A shapeless heap of stones about 6 feet in height occupies the greater part of the interior. It is circular and measures some 56 feet in diameter externally, and, as the wall has been about 11 feet 6 inches thick, the internal diameter has been about 33 feet. The entrance cannot be detected, but on the west a short length of a narrow gallery from 2 feet to 2 feet 6 inches wide is preserved.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 22 May 1915.
OS map: Skye xvi.
