Desk Based Assessment
Date 29 September 1972
Event ID 639711
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
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Dun a' Choin Dhuibh. This dun occupies the summit of an isolated crag. It measures 45' N-S by 40' within a c.10' thick wall, built with a heavy batter, and still standing 8' high on W. The SE quadrant of wall has fallen outward. There are two entrances, one, with signs of a door check, in the NE, and the other, Z-shaped, in the W. The rest of the summit and a shoulder 10' below it is protected by a built rampart.
It is more roughly built than the dun, and as at least one stone of the latter rests on stones apparently belonging to the core of the rampart, this may pre-date the dun. On the shoulder, three small rings of boulders were observed c.1912, abutting against the outer rampart. One was dug into and much iron slag recovered. If the outer wall then exposed was really the inner face of the rampart, then the latter was 7'6" thick, but this is not quite certain.
Bloomed iron, found in 1959, is at Kilberry, and a medieval quern stone lies in situ, by the flagpole in the centre of the dun.
Information from OS (IF) 29 September 1972
V G Childe and A Graham 1943; M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964
