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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 676091
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/676091
NM82SW 3 8187 2358.
(NM 8187 2359) An Dunan (NR)
OS 1/10,000 map, (1976)
This dun occupies the summit of a rocky knoll overlooking the narrows at the mouth of Loch Feochan. The flanks of the knoll are everywhere steep, but on the NW and SW present almost vertical rock faces up to 9m in height.
Oval on plan, the dun has measured 11.9 by 9.1 metres within a massively-built stone wall about 4.3 metres in maximum thickness. Considerable stretches of the outer face survive in situ, the best presented sector being on the east where the wall stands to a height of 1.2 metres in seven courses. The lowest course lies as much as 1.8 metres below the level of the summit area. Only a few inner facing stones are visible.
The entrance was probably situated on the west where a rock fall has removed nearly all traces of the wall and a grassy path gives access to the summit. Immediately to the south of this area, an earthfast stone, which protrudes from the band of rubble only 1.7 metres inside the line of the outer face may indicate the presence of some intra-mural feature. RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1967.
As described.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 scale.
