Archaeology Notes

Event ID 655994

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NF72SW 9 7451 2372.

(NF 7451 2372) The remains of a dun occupy the south-western half of the more southerly of two small islands lying in Loch an Eilein, about 700 yards east of Askernish House, South Uist. It is about 70 yards from the western shore. The tumbled mass of stone rises about 6ft above the loch level. The landward end of a submerged causeway can be traced under water from a peninsula to the NW of the island. The course is slightly tortuous, apparently to utilise several rocks which appear above water near the landward end.

RCAHMS 1928.

The remains of this dun are as described above. No trace of the causeway can now be seen.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (R D) 11 May 1965.