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Field Visit
Date May 1969
Event ID 1176305
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1176305
NM 869 386. This dun (Fig. 60, plan), 800 m W of Balure farmhouse, occupies the top of an isolated rocky stack 15 m in height, which is situated within 50 m of the shore. Except on the NE and W, where there are steep grassy slopes, the stack presents almost sheer rock faces in all directions. The dun wall is built round the margin of the summit area, the lowest course of the outer face being bedded in the sides of the stack at a distance of as much as 2·6 m below the crest. Now largely reduced to a band of stony rubble in which only a few facing-stones are visible, the wall appears to have varied in thickness from 1·8 m on the S to about 3.6 m on the W. The entrance, about 1·5 m wide, is on the NE, where a spine of rock affords a convenient approach. Internally the dun measures 15 m from NE to SW by a maximum of 6 m transversely.
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1969.
