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Auliston Point
Dun (Later Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Auliston Point
Classification Dun (Later Prehistoric)(Possible)
Canmore ID 22306
Site Number NM55NE 1
NGR NM 55463 57945
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Morvern
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (May 1974)
NM 554 579. Approximately 800m E of Auliston Point, on the N end of a short rocky promontory which terminates in vertical cliffs up to 6m high, there are the wasted remains of an enclosure which may possibly have been a small dun. A sub-rectangular area measuring about 11.5m from E to W by 9.5m transversely has been cut off by an arc of walling now reduced to an irregular band of tumbled debris nowhere more than 3m thick. The shallow trenches that can be seen on the inner and outer margins of the band may represent the quarry-scoops made by stone-robbers removing the facing stones of the wall. The position of the entrance is unknown.
RCAHMS 1980, visited May 1974
Note (20 November 2014 - 18 May 2016)
A small fortification has been created by a wall drawn across the neck of a promontory standing a little way back from the shore on the coast to the W of Auliston Point. The wall on the S has been reduced to an arc of tumbled rubble about 3m thick, with traces of robber trenches along its inner and outer margins. Elsewhere the subrectangular interior is defined by cliffs some 6m high and measures 11.5m from E to W by 9.5m transversely (0.01ha). The position of the entrance is unknown.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2531
