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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 655529
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/655529
NF70SW 3 7025 0188.
(NF 7025 0188) Dun (NR)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)
A ruin in Loch nic Ruaidhe is respectively described as :- A tumbled mass of stones rising some 8ft above the water, the remains of a dun on one of the smaller islets in the NE corner of the loch, with a number of boulders, possibly the commencement of a sunk causeway, stretching out towards it from the N shore (RCAHMS 1928).
and:
A crannog with tumbled walling, with a causeway leading to it from the shore by way of a second and larger island (A Young 1958).
Neither authority suggests that there is more than one island on the loch with a 'ruin' on it.
RCAHMS 1928; A Young 1958.
This scrub-covered conical island, measuring 22.0m E to W and situated approx. 30.0m from the N shore of the loch, was inaccessible at the time of investigation, but appears to be as described by the RCAHMS. Vague traces of a wall-face can be seen through the tumble of stones which surrounds the island.
Large boulders beneath the surface of the water, leading from the N shore of the loch to the island, are probably the remains of a causeway. This island is the only one which appears to have ruins on it.
Visited by OS (N K B) 16 May 1965.
Scheduled as 'Loch nic Ruaidhe, dun, Barra... the remains of a later prehistoric (Iron Age) island dun'.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 8 November 2005.
