Colonsay, Dun Meadhonach
Dun (Later Prehistoric), Midden (Period Unknown), Animal Remains (Period Unknown)
Site Name Colonsay, Dun Meadhonach
Classification Dun (Later Prehistoric), Midden (Period Unknown), Animal Remains (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 37893
Site Number NR39SE 2
NGR NR 36498 94715
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/37893
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Colonsay And Oronsay
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR39SE 2 3650 9472.
(NR 3650 9472) Dun Meadhonach (NR)
OS 6" map (1900)
A small dun which shows signs of having been occupied in comparatively recent times. Slight excavation in its kitchen-midden revealed a quantity of bones of domestic animals.
S Grieve 1923
Not located.
S Piggott and C M Piggott 1948
An oval dun, measuring internally 21.0m E-W by 13.0m, occupies the top of a rocky knoll. The wall is best preserved in the W where it is up to 2.8m wide and three courses high. Elsewhere, only a scattering of stones survives. The entrance is not apparant, but was probably in the E. The interior is flat and featureless. Below the dun, to the SE, are two small plots, defined by the slight remains of a field dyke.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (BS) 6 April 1974
Field Visit (June 1976)
NR 365 947. This dun occupies a detached rocky knoll, some 12m high, situated 250 m SW of 'Seaview' on the fringe of the massif that forms the central ridge of Colonsay.
Subrectangular on plan, the dun measures 16m by 6m within a wall some 2.8m thick. Several stretches of the outer face remain in position standing at best to a height of O.5m in four courses. A gap in the wall debris at the NE end indicates the position of the entrance at a point where access to the summit along a series of rocky terraces is most favourable.
Visited June 1976
RCAHMS 1984
Measured Survey (1976)
RCAHMS surveyed the fort at Dun Meadhonach in 1976 at 1:400. The plan was redrawn in ink and published at a reduced size (RCAHMS 1984, fig. 115C).