Mull, Sean Dun, Kinloch
Dun (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Mull, Sean Dun, Kinloch
Classification Dun (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Seann Dun
Canmore ID 22212
Site Number NM52NW 1
NGR NM 5333 2790
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilfinichen And Kilvickeon
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM52NW 1 5333 2790.
(NM 5333 2790) Seann Dun (NR) (remains of)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)
The remains of this dun are now visible as a band of stone about 3.0m wide enclosing an area about 23.0m NE-SW by 15.0m. On the SW there are three large grounders but elsewhere there is no trace of the wall face. There are no signs of the entrance and the interior is featureless. Resurveyed at 1:10560.
Visited by OS (R D) 2 June 1972.
Dun, Sean (sic) Dun, Kinloch: Little now remains of this dun, situated on the crest of a spur, about 400m S of Kinloch Hotel. On the date of visit the site had been ploughed prior to afforestation and no more than the general outline of the dun could be seen. It appeared to have been roughly oval on plan and to have measured about 16m from NNE to SSW by 14m transversely ovel all. The position of the entrance could not be detected.
RCAHMS 1980, visited June 1973.
Field Visit (1934)
Fort, Dun on slope of Maol Mor behind deserted inn. Only trace of stone encient on one crest of ridge.
Argyll xcv2.
Field Visit (30 June 1943)
Dun S. of head of Loch Scridain.
South of the woods above the deserted 'Inn' on the Salen-Fionphort road the ground rises to a ridge running N and S. At the S end of the first and E-most ridge, where it is 48 ft. wide are traces of a very dilapidated wall curving along the S edge a short distance. 64 ft to the N are still vaguer traces of a wall across the ridge. The ramparts, if such they were, have been completely robbed leaving no scree along the sides of the ridge.
Visited by RCAHMS 30 June 1943.
Desk Based Assessment (24 April 2013)
UPM Tilhill commissioned Alder Archaeology to undertake an archaeological desk-based assessment on the site of a forestry harvesting development at Pennyghael, Mull. The site is a forestry plantation on moorland bounded by the Leidl River to the west, the A849 road to the north and forestry and open moorland to the east and south. The site is centred on NGR NM 533 258.
The remains of an Iron Age dun and various post-medieval settlements and other features were recorded.
This programme of archaeological works was commissioned by UPM Tilhill for its own internal management and mitigation process.
Information from David Perry (Alder Archaeology Ltd).
