Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648787

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC25NW 1 2272 5575

At NC 2272 5575 surmounting a rocky islet only approachable at low water, is a ruinous, D-shaped enclosure, possibly a robbed dun. Noted as a platform by Welsh (T C Welsh 1969), it measures approximately 11.0 m ESE-WNW along the straight side of the 'D', by some 8.0 m transversely between the centres of a ruinous, turf-covered wall spread to about 2.5 m in which no facing stone is evident, but from the amount of rubble evident has obviously been a strong wall, probably robbed of larger material.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (A A), 19 July 1971.

T C Welsh 1969.

No change. Though the remains are scant, both the size and position, maximising the limited natural defensive features of the islet leave little doubt that this is a typical small west coast dun.

Visited by OS (N K B), 15 July 1980.

(NC 200 590 (centre)) A second field survey of parts of the John Muir Trust Sandwood Estate and some adjacent areas was carried out by ACFA in July 2002, extending a similar 1998 survey (DES 2000, 51).

Two sites were surveyed at Kinlochbervie: a small denuded coastal dun (NC 2272 5575), already noted; and a croft site (NC 230 568) with five substantial features, including a hut circle and numerous clearance cairns.

(Copies of the 1998 and 2003 survey reports have been lodged with the NMRS).

J C Waterton 2003.