Archaeology Notes

Event ID 651175

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC76SW 1 7175 6338.

(NC 7175 6338) Dun (NR) (site of)

OS 6"map, (1964)

Traces of a broad stonybank on the end of a rigde. The area is roughly D-shaped and is an ideal site for a dun, although RCAHMS classify it as a broch. The house at NC 7178 6338 is called 'The Dhuine', but otherwise there is no local knowledge of the site.

J Horsburgh 1870; RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909; Visited by OS (J L D) 28 April 1960.

The remains of a broch.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (R L) 7 July 1971.

The remains of a broch situated on the end of a rocky ridge. It comprises a turf-covered quarried mound, the east half of which has been removed to accommodate the outbuildings of a croft. At the base of the mound in the west arc is the base course of the broch outer face forming an arc about 9.0m long.

Visitd by OS (N K B) 8 August 1977.