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Field Visit
Date June 1968
Event ID 1176051
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1176051
NM 824 266. This dun occupies the top of an isolated stack, about 15m in height, which is situated close to the shore 700 m NW of Gallanach. The dun wall follows the margin of the summit area, but apart from a short stretch of outer facing-stones on the E side it is now reduced to a grass-covered stony bank. Internally the dun measures about 23 m by 12 m. The entrance was presumably on the NE, no approach being practicable from any other direction owing to the steepness of the sides of the stack. Excavations have been undertaken on several occasions, not within the dun itself but in the midden deposit at the base of the stack on the W side. A recent reassessment of the finds (PSAS, ciii (1970-1), 100-12) demonstrates that they fall into two distinct groups. The earlier group, which includes a sherd of samian ware, a bronze pin with a projecting ring-head, a bronze finger-ring and a bronze strap-loop, possibly of Roman origin, indicates a date about the 2nd century AD for the building of the dun. An antler pottery stamp, a number of bone pins with globular heads and a fragment of a composite bone comb suggest a second occupation of the site in the 6th century AD or rather later.
RCAHMS 1975, visited June 1968.
