Field Visit
Date 5 May 2009
Event ID 590359
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/590359
This dun is situated at the top of a NW-facing cliff 550m W of Ardscalpsie farmsteading (NS05NE 111). Roughly oval on plan, it measures about 24m from NE to SW by 18m transversely within steep natural slopes and cliffs on the W and N and a wall elsewhere that measures 2.6m in thickness and about 1m in height. This wall was partly reconstructed in 1933 as part of a series of works, which included excavation, instigated by the 4th Marquess of Bute. The level above which the wall has been reconstructed is marked by a series of small lead plates, inserted into the wall-face. There is an entrance on the E and the cup marked stone in the interior of the dun is as previously described.
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH) 5 May 2009.
