Archaeology Notes

Event ID 696131

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR51SE 1 5929 1255.

(NR 5929 1255) The slight remains of an almost circular dun lie on a low, rocky knoll 185m east of the Rubha a' Mharaiche and at a height of 120m above it. It measures 12 to 13.5m across within a heavily-robbed wall whose few surviving facing-stones give a thickness of from 3 to 4m, although on the west it may have been only about 2.4m thick. The entrance, door-checked, measures 1.5m wide at the outer end and 2.4m wide at the inner. The interior is featureless. Colville notes a small stone circle 4.3m in diameter within a wall about 1.5m thick, situated 4.5m below the dun on the south (information from D Colville 1960).

RCAHMS 1971, visited 1962

The dun is as described and planned by the RCAHMS. The structure noted by Colville is of uncertain age. It stands on a slight spur. The entrance is in the ENE where a transverse slab is set. As the structure does not resemble two nearby shielings, it is possibly contemporary with the dun.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (JB) 12 October 1977