Publication Account
Date 2007
Event ID 587219
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
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NM04 1 DUN HEANISH
NM/039434
This possible broch or dun on Tiree stands on a low promontory overlooking the shore. Nothing can be seen now but the remains of a roughly circular structure about 9m in diameter internally; only a few feet of the outer facing stones are exposed on the north side. Recent structures obscure the site. One outer wall completely encloses the site and a second protects it on the seaward side; both are now in the form of stony banks with only a few outer facing stones showing.
In 1974 a midden was exposed between the outer walls and yielded some coarse pottery, hammerstones, “pot boilers” (these were presumably heat-cracked stones) bones and shells [3].
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. NM 04 SW 2: 2. Beveridge 1903 87-8: 3. RCAHMS 1980, 109, no. 208 and fig. 126.
E W MacKie 2007
