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Field Visit
Date 19 June 1954
Event ID 1111148
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1111148
NS77NE c. 76 79 (unnoted)
Dun, Auchincloch (Site).
Gordon's illustrated account (1) of a stone-walled structure known as ‘Cairn-faal’, situated on a hill called the Forebrae ‘above the Village of Achincloich’, leaves no doubt that, in his time, a dun existed here and was in an excellent state of preservation. The circular stone wall, showing eight or nine courses of masonry and measuring 12 ft. in height by 16 ft. in thickness, enclosed an area about 80 ft. in diameter. There was an entrance on the E. An outwork is shown on Roy's plan (2), but of this Gordon says that it was ‘so embarrassed and confused, that I hardly dare offer to describe it’.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 19 June 1954
(1) Itin. Septent., 22 and pl. III, I.
(2) Military Antiquities, pl. xxxv, where the dun is named "Cairn Faulds".
