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Field Visit
Date May 1969
Event ID 1176424
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1176424
NM 837 400. This dun (Fig. 69, plan) occupies the highest point on the NE end of a rock ridge 180 m SW of Balygrundle, but it is separated from the main mass of the ridge by a cleft which runs transversely across it. The approach from the W is over level ground but the flanks of the ridge fall steeply on the other three sides. The wall of the dun has been drawn round the margin of the summit, and originally enclosed an oval area measuring about 30 m by 15m. On the Nand E sides the wall has now been completely robbed away, but on the Sand W it is represented by a band of stones which is spread to a breadth of up to 6 m, and stands to a height of 1·4 m externally and 1·0 m internally. A gap in the debris in the centre of the W side presumably indicates the original entrance to the dun, the interior of which is featureless. A ruined wall of no great age runs up the W flank of the knoll.
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1969.
