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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 657652
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/657652
NG31NE 1 3958 1597.
(NG 3958 1597) Dun (NR)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)
A galleried promontory dun consisting of a wall cutting off a headland (Rudh an Dunain) which measures 80ft by 36ft in extent. The wall, built of large, squared blocks, is 12ft thick at the base and stands to a maximum height of approx. 9ft The entrance, near the N End, is checked for a door, and galleries can be distinguished within the wall.
RCAHMS 1928; R W Feachem 1963.
A galleried promontory dun as described above.
Visited by OS (C F W) 11 April 1961.
