Archaeology Notes
Date - 1970
Event ID 765443
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/765443
NS09NW 4 0348 9863
See also NS09NW 13.
(NS 0348 9863) A wall about 3' high and 10' broad, enclosing an area 70' x 60', runs round the S, W, and N of the flat top of a tidal island, which may be joined to the shore by a causeway. Another similar wall stretches across the approach from the shore.
I Christian 1965
The wall is situated on the highest point of the small tidal islet Eilean Math-ghamhna, and probably represents the severely mutilated remains of a dun. The enclosed area is 22.0m N-S x 14.0m within a tumbled stone wall, which, where best preserved on the W, is 3.3m wide with a coursed outer face c.1.2m high. Elsewhere the wall is visible as turf-covered rubble apart from on the NE where it has been completely removed (probably to build a nearby shieling). The 'wall' across the approach to the shore is a natural rock outcrop. There is no causeway.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (RD) 29 April 1970
