Archaeology Notes

Event ID 676092

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN03SW 1 0181 3243

(NN 0181 3243) Dun Leigh (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)

This dun is situated on a rocky ridge overlooking the south shore of Loch Etive and the mouth of the River Awe. It stands on a knoll about 10 metres above the surrounding ground which has been quarried close to the dun on the south side. The dun measures 9.8 metres in diameter within a massively built wall between 2.4 and 3.4 metres thick, and a considerable number of both inner and outer facing stones still survive. The wall is best preserved in the NE where the outer face attains a height of 1.2 metres in three courses. The entrance is on the SW and the inner corner stone of the north side of the passage is still in place.

RCAHMS 1975, visited June 1969.

The outer face of the wall can be traced almost in its entirety, but is best preserved on the north where it stands 1.2 metres high. There are virtually no inner faces and the entrance could not be identified. The name could not be confirmed.

Surveyed at 1:2500

Visited by OS (R D) 21 October 1971 and (F R H) 7 April 1962).