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Tiree, An Dun, Rubha Sgibinis
Dun (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Tiree, An Dun, Rubha Sgibinis
Classification Dun (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Dun Sgibinis; Dun Rubha Sgibinis
Canmore ID 21499
Site Number NM04NE 7
NGR NM 0769 4709
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/21499
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Tiree
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM04NE 7 0769 4709.
(NM 0769 4709) An Dun (NR)
OS 6"map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
Dun Sgibinis: A small dun. Decorated pottery and hammer stones were found here. A paved area between the dun wall and the outer wall, evidently a hearth, is reported to have been found.
E Beveridge 1903.
The remains of a dun, with an associated outwork.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
The name "Dun Sgibinis" is in use locally.
Visited by OS (D W R) 21 June 1972.
(NM 0769 4709) Dun Sgibinis (NR) (remains of)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1977)
Dun, An Dun, Rubha Sgibinis: This dun is situated at the SE extremity of a low rocky promontory overlooking the shore at the W end of Poll a' Chrosain. Only the NW half of the dun now survives, but originally it may have occupied a roughly oval area about 12m from N to S by 10m transversely, marine erosion and stone robbing having removed all traces on the SE. The surviving portion of the wall has been reduced to a low stony mound in which long stretches of the outer face, but only two inner facing-stones, can still be seen; its thickness at the one point where it may still be measured is about 2.6m. Resting on top of the ruins of the wall on the W there is a large boulder, which may be a displaced facing-stone. The position of the entrance is uncertain, but it probably lay on the NNE. The interior is bare, apart from what may have been a small, relatively recent enclosure on the W.
There is an outwork on the landward side of the dun. A robber trench indicates the line of the inner face of the wall, but considerable stretches of outer facing-stones survive, possibly because of their exceptional size, the largest measuring 1.25m by 0.8m by 0.5m. The most likely position of the entrance is in the gap on the WNW, which is flanked by outer facing-stones of more than average size. Between the dun and the outwork there are the slight remains of a sub-rectangular enclosure of unknown date.
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1980.
Resistivity (2007)
NM 07669 47109 – NM 07698 47117 – NM 07711 47093 An Dùn Rubha Sgibinis Resistivity survey was conducted over the area occupied by the denuded remains of the Atlantic roundhouse and its outworks. Despite minimal soil cover the survey produced extremely useful information about the location of the entrance to the roundhouse, possible levelling platform or perhaps even an earlier structure underneath the
surviving wall arc, as well as multiple secondary structures.
