Archaeology Notes

Event ID 695921

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR63NE 16 6830 3665

(NR 6833 3664) An Dunan (Fort) (NR)

OS 6" map (1924)

This dun is situated in trees at a height of 45m OD; it occupies a strong natural position on the western tip of a narrow promontory between the left bank of the Barr Water and a small unnamed tributary. The dun probably measured about 15m by 12m internally, but no trace of the enclosing wall survives on the NW, probably as a result of the erosion of the cliff face which falls abruptly to the river on this side. Elsewhere the wall is represented by a band of stony debris, up to 1.2m in height and some 4.6m in thickness, in which a few external facing-stones are visible at the SW end. No entrance can now be seen and, apart from a ruinous wall of no great age, the interior is featureless.

RCAHMS 1971, visited 1960.

The dun is as described and planned by RCAHMS.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (JB) 8 December 1977.