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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 648378
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/648378
NC40SW 2 4445 0085.
(NC 44370084) An Dun (NR) (site of supposed Pictish Fort).
OS 6"map, Sutherland, 2nd ed., (1875)
The site of a 'doune' on a small knoll. The stones have been removed for building purposes except for 'a part of the base which is grown over and now resembles the rocky ground around.'
Name Book 1875.
The summit of the natural knoll about 18m in diameter and disturbed by turf-covered stones and an old field wall which crosses it from north to south. The site is a likely one for a broch, but no trace of any structure can be seen.
Visited by OS (W D J) 3 April 1963.
The site of the possible broch, as described in the previous field report, is at NC 4445 0085. No name is known locally.
Visited by OS(J B) 21 September 1976.
