Archaeology Notes

Event ID 654139

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND25NW 8 2065 5605.

(NR 2065 5605) Cairn of Dunn (NR) (site of)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)

This is a round, stony mound said by the RCAHMS (1911) to be a probable broch. It has a diameter of about 100ft and a height of about 3ft. No structure is visible through the much-ploughed surface, which is strewn with fragments of slaty stone (RCAHMS 1911).

The name 'Cairn of Dunn' derives from a cairn of stones which stood on the mound until shortly before 1871.

Name Book 1871.

Apart from a scatter of small stones at the site indicated, no trace of the Cairn of Dunn could be found. Whether or not this was a cairn or broch could not be ascertained from ground inspection. The site falls on top of a slight ridge in an arable field, where a distinct rise in the ground is evident.

Revised at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (R D) 27 October 1965.

This site falls within a distinctive, turf-covered mound 40.0m in diameter and 1.0m high. The mound is ploughed-out and featureless, but suggests the remains of a broch or cairn.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (J M) 5 March 1982.