Archaeology Notes

Event ID 658373

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG33NE 1 3609 3878.

(NG 3609 3878) Dun Garsin (NAT) Fort (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Dun Garsin, a probable broch, occupies a commanding position on a table-topped hill above Loch Beag. On the NNW, from which direction it is accessible, it rises in rocky escarpments and terraces about 35' above a narrow valley with higher ground beyond. Destruction has been thorough, the stones being removed to build the revetment on the side of the road to Sligachan many years ago. Faint traces of the outer wall or parapet which enclosed the summit can be detected in places, forming an irregular oval some 150' NE-SW and some 105' NW-SE. In the NNE sector are the remains of what was probably a broch some 55' in diameter externally, now showing as a shapeless bank of stones and earth about 14' broad and 3' high, enclosing a circular space; on the SSE some 6' of walling with one or two courses in position seems to be the inner face of the inner wall of a gallery. Listed as an uncertain example of a Broch (A Graham 1949).

RCAHMS 1928; A Graham 1949.

Dun Garsin, as described by RCAHMS, is a broch within an outwork. A probable entrance to the broch, about 2.0m wide, is visible in the ENE.

Visited by OS (C F W) 31 May 1961.