Archaeology Notes

Event ID 673316

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM24SE 1 2760 4206.

(NM 2760 4206) Dun Cruit (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)

Remains of walls are distinctly traceable on Dun Cruit, an inaccessible stack off the W shore of Lunga. The name means, "Pictish fort". When occupied, the probability, if not certainty, is that the approach was by means of a drawbridge across the narrow gully to the E.

E Beveridge 1903.

Detailed investigation of this stack was not possible due to its inaccessibility, but around its landward side there are traces of a crude stone wall, about 60m long and up to three courses high. The only habitable area of the stack, on the landward side, contains several grassy platforms, but no structures were identified.

Visited by OS (D W R) 6 May 1974.