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Archaeology Notes
Date - 1977
Event ID 696190
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/696190
NR79SE 1 7811 9130.
(NR 7811 9130) Fort (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
A dun occupies the summit of Druim an Duin. It measures 50' x 30' within a wall whose thickness varies considerably from a maximum of 17' on the S. The existing remains appear to end on the brink of the precipitous NW flank of the ridge, but the question whether the two ends were once linked by a full-sized wall, or a lesser wall, or none at all, can only be resolved by excavation. On the N and NE, the wall appears to stand on a stone-built platform which could have been reconstructed to form a level foundation, but again only excavation can determine the nature of the platform and its relationship to the wall. Christison (1904) states that the remains of a secondry wall exist about 6' within the N wall and adds that the inner face on the E has a 'scarcement' 5' high and 1 1/2' wide.
Both entrances have door-checks, while the S entrance also has a bar-hole at least 10' long, close to the W door-check.
A small passage, 3' wide by 4' in height and length, with its lintels still in place, opens halfway along the E wall of the S entrance. The N wall of the gallery can be traced for a further 11', parallel to, and 8' from the inner face of the dun wall, before it is obscured by debris, though several long slabs, possibly lintels, lie half buried in debris for another 11'. The S gallery wall turns sharply S for 5' at the end of the small passage, and then ENE for 8', forming a small bay before continuing.
Two terraces of stones lying just outside the N entrance are probably dumps from excavations in 1904. Relics found then included a steatite cup, part of a rotary quern-stone, and a perforated sandstone disc, 3 3/4" in diameter.
D Christison 1905; Information from RCAHMS manuscript, visited 1958.
Generally as described by RCAHMS. There is no evidence of a scarcement within the dun. The N entrance, exposed in 1904, would appear to have been blocked by a secondary wall.
A terrace with stones outside the S entrance is probably an excavation dump, as the illustration would tend to confirm.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (DWR) 22 May 1973.
No change to the report of 22 May 1973.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (TRG) 26 January 1977.
