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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 657074
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/657074
NF86NW 3 8127 6692.
(NF 8127 6692) Dun (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)
Dun Ban (F W L Thomas 1890) is situated towards the N end of Loch Huna, near Clachan-a-guilp connected by a causeway to the NW shore of the loch.
The enclosing wall (nowhere above 5ft high) seems to have contained, within its thickness, several small 'cup-shaped cells', apparently structural, in the largest of which was found a hammerstone. The original dun has been almost entirely obliterated by superimposed buildings of late medieval date.
E Beveridge 1911; F W L Thomas 1890.
The remains of this oblong dun are generally as described by Beveridge, but traces of the outer wall-face can be seen on the north and west sides. The 'cup-shaped cells' within the enclosing wall appear to be the result of later robbing rather than structural. Breaks in the N and S sides of this wall may represent original entrances. The name 'Dun Ban' could not be confirmed.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (J T T) 9 June 1965.
