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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 648571
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/648571
NC01SW 3 0170 1380.
At NC 0170 1380 on a low promontory are the remains of a dun.
The approach to the promontory has been blocked by a curving wall 2.6m thick. Behind it at a distance of seven metres, a straight wall 3.2m thick crosses the promontory. Together these walls form a forework or blockhouse, roughly D-shaped, which has measured about 5.0m x 5.0m internally. It has until recently been filled with blown sand, but this has been dug away and part of the outer walling mutilated in the process. No entrance is evident. The remainder of the promontory has been enclosed by a drystone wall not more than 1.0m thick built on the edge of a low cliff and now mostly tumbled away on the NE. This has isolated an area behind the forework which now measures 18.0m N-S by 9.0m E-W although rock fall at its N end suggests it may once have been longer.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 18 July 1974.
