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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 674948
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/674948
NM80SW 14 8265 0037.
(NM 8265 0038) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1974)
Dun Mac Samhainn (Fort of the Sons of Hallowe'en?): On a conspicuous high point to the west of Kilmartin Glen and with a steep descent on the east towards Kilmartin Burn are the remains of what Authority 2 describes as a roughly circular dun or fort with a diameter of 65', with walls at least 6' thick, evidence of a probable entrance on the north side, and two clear faces of wall on the west. The structure has a hollow centre.
However, Craw (1930) refers to it simply as a heavily robbed cairn, whilst the Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB 1872) describes it as a 'tolerably sized cairn of stones, evidently a sepulchral one .....'
M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964; J H Craw 1930; Name Book 1872.
This is a robbed cairn, not a dun. It measures about 16 metres in diameter with a maximum height of 1 metre. It is surmounted by a modern cairn.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 scale.
Visited by OS (R D) 10 March 1970.
This feature is in a poor state amid mature and fallen trees (not for 1:50000).
Visited by OS (GHN) November 1996
