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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 675308
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/675308
NM83NE 1 8692 3868.
(NM 8693 3868) Dun Bachlach (NR) (site of)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1977)
Dun Bachlach occupies the top of an isolated rocky stack 15m in height, situated within 50m of the shore. Except on the NE and W, where there are steep grassy slopes, the stack presents almost sheer rock-faces in all directions. The dun wall is built round the margin of the summit area, the lowest course of the outer face being bedded in the sides of the stack at a distance of as much as 2.6m below the crest. Now largely reduced to a band of stony rubble in which only a few facing-stones are visible, the wall appears to have varied in thickness from 1.8m on the S to about 3.6m on the W. The entrance, about 1.5m wide, is on the NE, where a spine of rock affords a convenient approach. Internally the dun measures 15m from NE to SW by a maximum of 6m transversely.
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1969.
When visited in November 1969, the fragmentary remains of Dun Bachlach were generally as described by the RCAHMS.
Visited by OS (W D J) 11 November 1969.
