Dun Nan Gall, Mull

NM45SW 3 4008 5311.

(Name: NM 4003 5309) Dun nan Gall (NR)

OS 1:10000 map (1976)

Dun, Dun nan Gall: On the summit of a rocky knoll about 800m S of Croig farmhouse there are the denuded remains of a dun which measures internally about 26m from NW to SE by 13.5m transversely. The NE flank of the knoll is protected by sheer rock-faces 9m high, but on the SW the cliffs diminish in height, and in the middle of that side grassy slopes offer comparatively easy access to the summit. There are no traces of defences on the NE, where the natural strength of the knoll rendered aritificial protection unnecessary, but on all other sides the dun has been defended by a dry-stone wall, now reduced to a low grass-grown band of core material not more than 3m thick, in which several stones of both faces can still be seen. The entrance is situated on the NW, the wall terminals being staggered on each side, presumably because the margin of the summit severely indented at this point; a modern dry-stone wall has been built across its mouth.

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1972

NM 4008 5311. Dun nan Gall, the remains of a dun as described by the RCAHMS. (Although this dun was surveyed at 1:2500 scale, the plan was subsequently down-graded, and the detail was not published on the 1:10,000 plan).

Visited by OS (JP) 16 June 1972

Site recorded during fieldwork by the staff of the Strathclyde Joint Archaeology Service

NM 4000 5318 Dun

Strathclyde Regional Council SMR 1995