Archaeology Notes

Event ID 694678

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR27SE 21 2529 7152.

(NR 2529 7151) A dun occupies a low rocky headland at Port na Caillich. A large part of the wall has fallen away but a few inner and outer facing stones are in situ, and the entrance is in the S. External walling can now be seen closing gaps in the rock on the NW, NE, SW and SE. A stretch of outer wall crosses a natural fissure on the NW.

Information from RCAHMS, visited May 1977.

The scant remains of a dun generally as described by the RCAHMS. It measures approximately 8.5m N-S by 7.5m E-W within a severly eroded wall reduced to a scatter of core material on all but the S side at the entrance gap, where some inner and outer facing stones remain indicating a wall thickness of about 2.5m at this point. No structures are visible in the enclosed area, largely occupied by exposed living rock. There is an outwork providing additional defence to the entrance to the S of the dun at a lower level. Little remains of the wall which follows the rim of a low cliff enclosing an area about 7.0m N-S by 6.5m E-W. A further defence may have existed to the NW of the dun where some tumbled stone occurs, but no coherent pattern can be recognised.

Surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (N K B) 15 June 1978.