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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 673852

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/673852

NM26SW 12 2345 6331.

(NM 2345 6331) Dun Morbaidh (NR) (rems of)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)

Fort, Dun Morbhaidh: This fort occupies a small craggy hill situated close to the shore. The highest part of the site is on the W, and the summit area, measuring about 30m by 15m, has been protected on the W side by a wall (A on plan) of which only slight traces survive; no inner facing-stones are visible, but two short lengths of outer face can be seen, standing to a maximun height of 0.7m in three courses.

The E half of the hill, which consists of a series of slopes interspersed with terraces and rock outcrops, exhibits some remains of two further walls. The medial wall (B) is mainly drawn round the margin of a terrace, but it also appears in a narrow gap in the rocks to the N of the same terrace, where the outer face is 1.2 m high in five courses. The outer wall (C) has been built round the foot of the hill facing level ground. Like wall B, its remains are very slight, but one side of the entrance- passage and a stretch of outer facing-stones are visible. Within the fort Beveridge (E Beveridge 1903) found the remains of midden material and several sherds of pottery decorated with incised patterns and finger-impressed cordons; two of these sherds are unusual in that they also bear the incised figures of deer. The pottery is now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS Accession nos: HD 322-327).

RCAHMS 1980; E Beveridge 1903; C Thomas 1961.

When visited in 1972, Dun Morbaidh was noted as 'probably as a dun with outworks'; its condition was generally similar to that described by RCAHMS. No traces of any middens were seen.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (I S S) 19 June 1972.

NM 234 633 1 sherd pottery

Sponsors: Univ of Edinburgh Dept of Archaeology, Holley & Assoc.

W M Holley 1995

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