Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648167

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NB55NE 1 5602 5762

See also NB55NE 3.

(NB 562 576) Dun Bilascleiter (NAT)

OS 6"map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1898)

Dun Bhilascleiter (NR)

OS 6"map, (1965)

Dun Bhilascleittir (F W L Thomas 1890) or Dun Bhilascleitir (Name Book 1850 - changed to Dun Bilascleiter - after information from Col. J Farquharson and J Mathieson, OS) is a small steep prominent headland, enclosed by a wall 10ft thick and 72ft long (F W L Thomas 1890).

On the summit there is a small oblong ruin, with no part of the walls standing. The stones of which it had been built are large and 'tolerably regular'. (Name Book 1850).

Name Book 1850; F W L Thomas 1890.

Dun Bilascleiter, Promontory Fort, site: 'A modern house, Dun Tower, occupies the site of the rampart, the stones of which were utilised in building the house. There is said to have been a well-built entrance with a guard chamber in the thickness of the rampart on the N side of the gateway.'

RCAHMS 1928, visited 13 July 1914.

There is now no trace of Dun Bhilascleiter, as it is known locally, at NB 5602 5762. The modern house which occupies the site is now derelict.

Visited by OS (R L) 14 June 1969.

Scheduled as Dun Bhilascleitir, promontory fort.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 9 March 1992.

A single unroofed building is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Island of Lewis Ross-shire 1853, sheet 6) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 14 January 1996.