Field Visit
Date 10 October 2002
Event ID 580703
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/580703
This extensively robbed dun stands on Galmisdale Point, immediately above the pier (NM48SE 51). Kidney-shaped on plan, it has measured overall about 28m from NNW to SSE by about 25m transversely. The wall is best preserved on the S and SW, where stretches of inner and outer face can be seen, though nowhere standing more than one course high; the wall here measures up to 2.8m in thickness. On the N, occasional grounders allow the line of the outer face to be traced, but on the E it has either been destroyed or masked by later disturbance. The road from the pier runs from the E to W through the centre of the dun; on the S side of the road most of the interior is occupied by a former tearoom, a crenellated building constructed for Walter Runciman in the 1920s (NM48SE 50), while to the N of the road the whole interior has been levelled and is in use as a car park.
(EIGG01 512)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 10 October 2002
