Coll, Loch An Duin

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(NM 2125 5781) There is an island dun near the N end of Loch an Duin. It has been entirely surrounded by walls, those to the S and E being particularly distinct.

E Beveridge 1903.

A crannog consisting of a natural rocky islet artificially enlarged with stones and measuring about 18.0 m NNW-SSE by 14.0 m and 2.5 m in height. There are traces of a collapsed wall around the SE and SW sides, but the only structures visible within are two recent stone-walled duck hides. The top is overgrown with peat and thick vegetation. A collapsed causeway, now under water, runs N to a small exposed rock and then NW to the rocky shore.

Visited by OS (I S S) 3 July 1972.

Crannog, Loch an Duin: This island lies towards the N end of Loch an Duin, rather more than 27m from the NE shore of the loch. It is ovoid on plan, measuring 20.1m along its longest axis from N to S by 14.3m in maximum width. The only visible structural remains comprise traces of an enclosure wall of dry-stone construction, which survives to a maximum height of about 1 m in the SW and SE sectors of the island, and two later duck-shooting hides, which are also dry-stone built. A causeway, which is submerged for most of its length, runs N from the N end of the island to a rock outcrop and thence NW to the shore.

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1975.

NM 2125 5781 Oval mound, two platforms and well-preserved perimeter walling. Causeway

Sponsors: Univ of Edinburgh Dept of Archaeology, Holley & Assoc.

W M Holley 1995.