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Islay, Dun Cheapasaidh Mor
Fort (Prehistoric)
Site Name Islay, Dun Cheapasaidh Mor
Classification Fort (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 37710
Site Number NR36NE 8
NGR NR 38683 66548
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/37710
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Killarow And Kilmeny
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR36NE 8 3867 6654.
(NR 3867 6654) Dun Cheapasaidh Mor (NR) (Fort) (NR)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
This small promontory fort comprises a roughly triangular area, on the end of a ridge, measuring 105ft by 54ft, enclosed by a much ruined stone wall which incorporated upright stones set on edge as facing. There is no recognisable entrance.
S Piggott and C M Piggott 1948.
On the rise at the SW end of a ridge is sparse traces of a univallate fort, sub-oval on plan. It seems to have measured internally about 39.0m NE-SW by 20.0m the first measurement however is a little uncertain as mutilation has taken place in the opposing ends particularly the NE. The wall is reduced to a ragged fringe of turf-covered rubble.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (JM) 2 June 1978.
Field Visit (June 1976)
NR 386 665. Some slight traces of a fort can be seen on Dun Cheapasaidh Mor, a low knoll which forms the end of a ridge extending SW from Robolls Hill 550m NE of Kepolls. From the site the ground falls steeply in all directions except to the NE, where the immediate approach is comparatively easy along the crest of the ridge. The wall of the fort has been almost entirely destroyed by robbing; no facing-stones survive, and the core of the wall is represented onlv bv a ragged band of rubble which follows the margin of the summit area; its course along the NE side cannot now be determined.
RCAHMS 1984, visited June 1976
Measured Survey (1976)
RCAHMS surveyed the fort at Dun Cheapasaidh using plane-table and alidade at a scale of 1:400. The resultant plan was redrawn in ink and published at reduced scale (RCAHMS 1984, fig. 88B).
Field Visit (12 September 1993)
The remains of this fort are roughly as depicted on the published Inventory plan, but the ragged band of rubble that marks the line of the wall can also be followed around the NE sector. The wall is overlain on the NW by a later field-bank, which can be seen dropping down the slope on both the N and SW sides.
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH/ARW/PC) 12 September 1993.
RCAHMS 1984.
Note (30 September 2014 - 23 May 2016)
The remains of this small fortification stand on the local summit formed by the SW end of a low ridge. Heavily robbed, and more recently victim of pasture improvement, it measures about 40m from NE to SW by 20m transversely (0.06ha) within a wall reduced to a ragged band of rubble around the margins of the summit area. The position of the entrance is not known.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2152
