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Field Visit
Date 20 June 1965
Event ID 884688
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/884688
Dun Torcuill is a galleried dun and not a broch. It measures 18.6m NW to SE by 16.3m, with walls from 2.3m to 3.8m thick and up to 3.0m high externally and 2.1m internally. The entrance and gallery are still visible in the NW arc.
The 'secondary erection' noticed by Beveridge is obscured by tumbled stone which occupies the whole of the centre.
Adjoining the outer wall-face of the dun on the N are two later enclosures, with walls up to 1.9m thick and 1.3m high, the more westerly of which blocks the entrance to the dun. Traces of a tumbled drystone wall, 0.8m maximum height, start from the wall-junction of the N enclosure, continue around the water's edge on the W side of the islet and then possibly rejoin the west side of the dun: debris from the dun hides any other indications of the an outer curtain wall alleged by Beveridge.
See photos and 1/1250 sketch (on Record Card).
Surveyed at 1/10560.
Visited by OS (N K B) 20 June 1965.
