Archaeology Notes

Event ID 658220

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG51SW 2 5433 1427

(NG 5433 1427) Dun Liath (NR)

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

All that is left of Dun Liath is a large circle of stones, in places 20' wide and 4' high; it was plundered to provide material for a high drystone dyke in the immediate vicinity. The inner and outer foundation courses are visible in many places, giving an internal diameter of 38' N-S and 35' E-W. The wall thickness varies from 10' in the S, 12' in the W, to 13'9" in NE. The entrance has been destroyed, but there is slight evidence for placing it on the SE.

Possibly a broch, but not positively identified as such. Listed as an uncertain example (A Graham 1949).

RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914; A Graham 1949.

Dun Liath occupies a small spur on the lip of a steep slope 100' above Loch Slapin. Its plan, size, and general appearance, though denuded, indicate that it is a broch.

As described by the RCAHMS.

Visited by OS (C F W) 14 June 1961.