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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 661226
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/661226
NH59SE 5 5669 9098.
(NH 5669 9098) An Dun (NR) (Supposed Pictish Fort)
OS 6"map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907).
Classified as a broch by Graham and Watson, and said, by Watson, to be known as 'Carn Liath'.
A Graham 1949; W J Watson 1904.
The remains of a broch with outworks, known locally as An Dun, situated in a strong defensive position on a promontory between the River Carron and Allt Dounie.
The broch survives as an overgrown mound with a central depression which has been partially cleared revealing intermittent traces of the inner wall face which suggest an internal diameter of about 10.5m. No other measurements can be determined. A gap in the SE with a displaced lintel stone within, probably denotes the entrance, but no details are evident. It is defended in the N, S, and W by the steep slopes of the promontory, and in the E by two substantial ramparts drawn across the neck of the promontory, each fronted by a ditch c. 8.0m wide, the outermost being rock-cut at its S end. The outer rampart appears to have been revetted internally with dressed stones. The entrance has probably been in the S where the defences end on the natural slopes. A bank, showing set stones, occurs outside these defences and is probably another mutilated rampart. The broch and outworks are clearly contemporary.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 30 September 1969.
An Dun (NAT) Broch (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1971).
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (J M) 23 November 1976.
