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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 651362
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/651362
NC86NE 2 8566 6626.
(NC 8566 6626) An Dun (NR)
OS 6"map, (1964)
An Dun: On a slight promontory some 200ft above the sea are the indefinite foundations of a fort or castle. A parapet, some 6ft thick, has been built round the edge of the cliff, and about 15ft back from it, at the centre of the curve, are the foundations of a structure measuring internally about 20ft by 8ft. The purpose of this structure is unknown. RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.
An Dun, the fragmentary remains of a dun, roughly oval on plan, measuring about 13.0m NW-SW by 9.5m transversely within a wall some 3.0m thick reduced to a low stony scarp. The base course of the inner face is visible intermittently in the N and W, and traces of the outer face, with one fragment surviving to a height of 4 courses and 0.6m, are visible in the SW. The entrance is not evident. The remains of a presumably later subrectangular structure occur inside the dun. Marked by a slight stony bank with six upright stones, tallest 0.9m along its sides, it measures about 7.5m E-W by 5.0m transversely.
Outside the dun in the SE is an outwork in the form of a denuded rampart 0.6m high and spread to 3.5m.
About 15m SW of the dun on a shelf at a lower level are traces of stone-walled structures of uncertain plan and date.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (W D J) 3 May 1960 and (A A) 8 November 1960.
No change to the previous field reports.
Visited by OS (J M) 7 July 1977.
A cliff-castle.
R J Mercer 1981.
