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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 693053
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/693053
NR26NW 21 2396 6708.
(NR 2398 6706) Slight remains of a dun lie on a rocky knoll. It has measured about 12m overall but all that survives is a low grass-grown spread of rubble and a few short stretches of the lowest course of outer facing stones.
RCAHMS 1984.
Occupying the summit of a low, rocky knoll, 2.0m high, with a level approach from the east are the severely depleted remains of what may have been a dun, roughly circular on plan, measuring about 11.6m overall diameter. It is best preserved in the west arc where it survives as a turf-covered rickle of core material 3.0m wide, with several large base stones of the outer face protruding through the turf; these stones are set into the side of the knoll about 1.0m below the present summit level in such a position to maximise the limited defensive potential of the site. The entrance is assumed to have been in the east arc at the only logical point of access, but the dun is almost totally destroyed in this sector. There is the impression of a causeway crossing a ploughed out ditch here. Later clearance has been dumped at the base of the knoll.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 24 May 1979.
