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Minard Point, An Dunan
Dun (Prehistoric)
Site Name Minard Point, An Dunan
Classification Dun (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 22987
Site Number NM82SW 3
NGR NM 81869 23592
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmore And Kilbride
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM82SW 3 8187 2358.
(NM 8187 2359) An Dunan (NR)
OS 1/10,000 map, (1976)
This dun occupies the summit of a rocky knoll overlooking the narrows at the mouth of Loch Feochan. The flanks of the knoll are everywhere steep, but on the NW and SW present almost vertical rock faces up to 9m in height.
Oval on plan, the dun has measured 11.9 by 9.1 metres within a massively-built stone wall about 4.3 metres in maximum thickness. Considerable stretches of the outer face survive in situ, the best presented sector being on the east where the wall stands to a height of 1.2 metres in seven courses. The lowest course lies as much as 1.8 metres below the level of the summit area. Only a few inner facing stones are visible.
The entrance was probably situated on the west where a rock fall has removed nearly all traces of the wall and a grassy path gives access to the summit. Immediately to the south of this area, an earthfast stone, which protrudes from the band of rubble only 1.7 metres inside the line of the outer face may indicate the presence of some intra-mural feature. RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1967.
As described.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 scale.
Measured Survey (15 May 1967)
Surveyed with alidade and plane-table at 1mm:1ft. Redrawn in ink and published at the reduced scale of 1:1000 (RCAHMS 1975, fig. 45).
Field Visit (May 1967)
NM 818 235. This dun (Fig.45, plan) occupies the summit of a rocky knoll overlooking the narrows at the mouth of Loch Feochan some 190 m E of Minard Point. The flanks of the knoll are everywhere steep, but on the NW and SW present almost vertical rock-faces up to 9 m in height.
Oval on plan, the dun has measured 11'9 m by 9'1 m within a massively-built stone wall about 4'3 m in maximum thickness. Considerable stretches of the outer face survive in situ, the best-preserved sector being on the E, where the wall stands to a height of 1'2 m in seven courses; the lowest course lies as much as 1·8 m below the level of the summit area. Only a few inner facing stones are, however, visible. The entrance was probably situated on the W, where a rock-fall has removed nearly all traces of the wall and a grassy path gives access to the summit. Immediately to the S of this area an earthfast stone, which protrudes from the band of rubble only 1'7 m inside the line of the outer face, may indicate the presence of some intramural feature.
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1967.
