Creag Odhar
Dun (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Creag Odhar
Classification Dun (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 25843
Site Number NN86SE 29
NGR NN 8764 6384
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/25843
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Blair Atholl
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN86SE 29 8764 6384.
On the summit of Creag Odhar, a hill on the general line of the watershed between two valleys, there are the wasted remains of a dun. The situation is exposed and not particularly defensive but it is a vantage point that gives wide command of all approaches. The dun, oval in shape, is 36.5m NW-SE by 24.0m within a tumbled and over- grown wall of which occasional inner and outer facing stones survive and give in the W a definite wall thickness of 2.7m. There is no direct evidence of an entrance but the suggestion of an inclined approach from the NW may imply that there was one in this quarter.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 23 February 1976.
