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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 675499
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/675499
NM92SW 1 9112 2404.
(NM 9112 2404) Dun Iadain (NAT) Fort (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1974)
The remains of a fort crown the summit of Dun Iadain, an isolated, round-topped hill SW of Kilbridge farmhouse. The site is a strong one, flanked on all sides by steep grass-covered slopes and commanding extensive views to east and west. The fort measures about 57.6 by 19.2 metres internally and has been defended by two boulder-faced, rubble cored walls. The inner wall has been drawn around the margin of the summit area and appears now as a grass-grown stony scarp of varying height in which no facing stones remain visible. The entrance was in the SSE.
The outer wall follows, in great part, the outer edge of a level terrace 1 to 2 metres below the summit, but it has been severely mutilated, particularly on the west side where practically nothing of it remains. The entrance to the outer wall, was on the east. Outer and inner walls appear to converge at the south end of the fort where a rock fall has removed all traces of defences.
RCAHMS 1974, visited May 1967.
As described.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (R D) 15 October 1969.
