Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656437

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NF86SW 20 8429 6088.

(NF 8429 6088) Dun Ban (NR)

OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

Dun Ban, Caravat (Carinish) is comparatively modern, probably 14th-15th century, and is unique in having its walls built with shell-mortar. Its shape is also individual.

The surrounding wall still exists 6ft thick, with a boat-entrance at the south. It is alleged that the fort was roofed with flat stones supported by wooden beams until c. 1850.

A submerged causeway is said to have run to the south shore of the loch. E Beveridge 1911; RCAHMS 1928.

As described above except that the boat-entrance is in the SE. The walls are still substantial and stand to a maximum height of 2.5m. No trace was seen of any causeway connecting the island to the mainland.

Surveyed at 1/10,560.

Visited by OS (W D J) 12 June 1965.