Archaeology Notes
Date - 1969
Event ID 647745
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NB24NE 2 28550 47400
(NB 2854 4740) Dun Loch an Duna (NR)
OS 6"map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1898)
Dun Bhragaiur, Loch an Duna (F W L Thomas 1890) or Dun Loch an Duna is a broch (RCAHMS 1928), with an external diameter of 55ft and walls 12ft thick, standing to a height of 14ft on the S side (the wall showing a marked batter).
This is alleged to be the place where John Roy Macphail (or John Mackay) was caught in bed in the 16/17th century.
F W L Thomas 1890; RCAHMS 1928, visited 30 June 1921.
A broch, about 16.5m in diameter over walls about 3.5m thick, standing to about 3.0m maximum height, generally as described and planned.
The tumbled remains of a wall can be seen across the neck of the promontory on which the broch stands, but it is uncertain whether this is contemporary.
The broch is known locally simply as 'the dun'.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 19 June 1969.
