Castle Chalamine
Dun (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Castle Chalamine
Classification Dun (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 11776
Site Number NG81NW 10
NGR NG 8149 1749
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Glenelg (Skye And Lochalsh)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG81NW 10 8149 1749.
(NG 8149 1749) Dun (NR) (Remains of) (Supposed Pictish Tower)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1902)
Castle Chalamine, listed by Anderson as a broch, is situated on an eminence on the N side of the valley of Glenbeg. At the date of Gordon's Tour (A Gordon 1726), 1720, only the foundations remained.
J Anderson 1873; A Gordon 1926.
Dun (NR) (Site of)
OS 1/10,000map, (1971)
"Castle Chalamine", the remains of an oval dun, on a small but prominent knoll commanding extensive views over Gleann Beag. All that survives is a scatter of debris on the slopes of the knoll, and seven stones of the outer wall face on the NE giving an estimated wall thickness of between 2.5m and 3.5m. The internal area can not have been more than about 8.0m NW-SE by 5.0m NE-SW.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (W D J) 4 October 1966 and (A A) 25 June 1974.
