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Field Visit
Date 13 May 1914
Event ID 1105514
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1105514
Dun Mor, Torran.
To the south of the township of Torran, on the summit of along, elevated, rocky ridge rising from the east side of Loch Slapin, is Dun Mor. It stands about 100 feet higher than the loch to the west, and about the same height above a hollow on the east, which cuts it off from the hills behind. The ridge is difficult of access except from the north, at which end is the entrance to the dun. The main axis of the fort runs north and south, along which it measures some 330 feet internally, while it is some 120 feet in breadth. It has been defended by a massive stone wall, which for the greater part has been demolished to provide building material for a very large cattle-fold erected within its boundaries. So complete has been the destruction of this wall, that while it can be traced for nearly its entire length, only at the south end, on the south-eastern arc, and at the north end is any of the original building in position. A few of the larger foundation stones on the outer face of the wall remain undisturbed at the south end, and a short section of building to the south-east has been preserved by being utilised as the foundation of the modern wall at this part. At the north end is a mass of tumbled stones 10 feet in breadth and 3 feet in height. The entrance is quite obliterated.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 13 May 1914.
OS map: Skye xlvi.
