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Colonsay, Tobar Fuar
Dun (Later Prehistoric) - (Early Medieval)
Site Name Colonsay, Tobar Fuar
Classification Dun (Later Prehistoric) - (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 37918
Site Number NR39SE 42
NGR NR 35799 93840
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/37918
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Colonsay And Oronsay
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (8 April 1974)
NR 3579 9384 The scant remains of a small roughly circular dun measuring overall 11.0m in diameter are situated on a low rocky knoll at the head of Traigh an Tobair Fhuar. Outer facing stones can be seen in places and although there is no inner face the wall appears to have been about 2.5m wide. The entrance is not apparent and the interior is flat and featureless.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (BS) 8 April 1974
Field Visit (June 1976)
NR 357 938. This dun is situated on a low knoll overlooking the shore at the NE end of Machrins Bay. Roughly circular on plan, it measures about 12.5m in diameter over a wall which has been reduced to a slight stony mound. Several outer facing-stones can be seen on the W, S and E. and the entrance probably lay on the NE, where a large stone appears above the turf and may form part of the SE side of the passage.
Visited June 1976
RCAHMS 1984
Measured Survey (1976)
RCAHMS surveyed the dun at Tobar Fuar in 1976 at 1:400. The plan was redrawn in ink and published at a reduced size (RCAHMS 1984, fig. 122D).
