Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648193

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NB03NE 9 0852 3641.

A dun is said to have stood on a slight mound overlooking Camus na Clibhe, some 250 yards NW of an below the school.

All trace of the building has disappeared, but a spring in the neighbourhood is known as 'Tobar a Chaisteal'.

RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.

The site of 'An Caisteal' - the Castle - is a slight hummock, fairly near the find-spot of a Viking burial (NB03NE 1). McLeod notes the neighbouring name 'Traigh Bhargaigdh' - 'Beach of the Fort' (NB 080 365) No-one in the locality could remember any trace of structure on this site.

D J Macleod 1916.

Local tradition asserts that a turf-covered sand-dune at NB 0852 3641 is the site of this alleged dun. Several large stones are visible in rabbit burrows but there is no other trace of artificial structure.

The spring is a hollow to the S, which fills with water after rain.

Visited by OS (R L) 27 June 1969.

The actual site of Dun Camus na Clibhe may be the roundhouse situated at NB 083 361 (NB03NE 27).

I Armit 1994