Field Visit
Date June 1974
Event ID 1161992
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1161992
NM 276 420
Dùn Cruit is a conspicuous rocky stack, roughly D-shaped on plan, which is separated from the coastal cliffs on the W side of Lunga by a chasm about 6 m wide. The seaward face of the stack, forming the chord of the D, is a sheer precipice more than 40 m high, but the summit falls steeply from the NW to the SE, and on the side facing the island the cliffs range from about 15 m to 20 m in height. The S portion of the summit is, however, more gently sloping than the rest, and in this sector there are intermittent traces on the edge of the cliff of a rudely built stone wall which survives as a largely grass-covered bank of stony rubble about 1.5 m thick and not more than 0.6 m high. The date and purpose of this feature cannot be ascertained from superficial observation, but it is most unlikely that it represents, as has been suggested (Beveridge 1903, 66-7), the remains of a fortified structure.
RCAHMS 1980, visited June 1974
