Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656872

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NF75SE 5 7618 5313.

(NF 7618 5313) Dun Torcusay, which has been robbed of stone to build houses 300 yards north-east at Nunton, is situated on an islet in Loch Torcusay, Benbecula. Only the foundations remain of an irregular oval building which is 40ft north-south and 32ft across internally. The ends of an entrance on the south overlap to face west. There is another entrance at the north-east, to the south of which is a possible chamber 17ft long north-south by 5 1/2ft wide.

RCAHMS 1928.

Dun Torcusay is a galleried dun. The entrance is 1.2m wide and is checked for a door. Immediately to the S of the entrance, is a large rectangular chamber; and further round the wall in the north and south are two other smaller chambers. The walls, which are constructed of roughly faced stones, are 1.1m high.

There is no trace of the overlapping entrance in the south mentioned by RCAHMS.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (R D) 18 May 1965.