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Desk Based Assessment

Date 9 September 1971

Event ID 583029

Category Recording

Type Desk Based Assessment

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/583029

This dun, called Dun Burgidale by Feachem, measures 67ft in diameter within a wall varying from 10 to 14ft thick. A 2ft3ins wide passage was exposed in the W side by excavation by the Marquess of Bute in the 19th century. The doorway, 10ft wide externally and 6ft wide on the inside, is in the ESE.

Information from OS (IF) 9 September 1971

J K Hewison 1893; R W Feachem 1963

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