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Islay, Lon Broach
Dun (Later Prehistoric)
Site Name Islay, Lon Broach
Classification Dun (Later Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Lon Broach 2
Canmore ID 38144
Site Number NR46SW 5
NGR NR 4177 6451
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38144
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Killarow And Kilmeny
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR46SW 5 4177 6451.
NR 422 647. The summit of an isolated hillock is enclosed by a stone-and-turf wall, 0.91m to 1.82m wide, with an entrance on the east. The interior is divided by a wall into two parts, 10.97m by 8.23, and 5.43m and 3.65m.
I D Shanks 1976.
At NR 4177 6451 on the summit of a steep-sided limestone hillock, are the scant remains of an oval dun, severely robbed, and mutilated by the insertion of a later en- closure containing rig-and-furrow. The evidence for a dun rests largely on the appearance of the entrance in the east arc at the easiest means of approach. Its south side is defined by large slabs, of which four are exposed to a maximum height of 0.6m, indicating a wall thickness of 3.0m at this point. Elsewhere the wall is almost completely obliterated, but one or two outer facing stones remain in the side of the hillock 1.0m-1.5m below the summit level maximising the defensive potential of the site. Overall the dun measures approximately 21.0m E-W by 13.0m N-S. The rectangular enclosure within it measures 10.0m E-W by 8.0m N-S internally, with a wall width of 1.5m at the entrance common to that of the dun on the east side, but fragmentary elsewhere. Only one furrow is contained. There are no outworks.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 3 July 1978.
Field Visit (June 1979)
NR 417 645. This dun is situated 1.1km SE of Lossit farmhouse, and 500m NW of the dun Lon Broach 1 (RCAHMS 1984, No. 219), on a flat-topped, roughly conical knoll which rises about 10m above relatively low ground. The dun wall, which encloses an area measuring 16m by 11m, has been reduced to a grass-covered mound of rubble 2.5m in average thickness, with several stretches of the outer face and a few inner facing-stones still in position, but nowhere more than one course high. On the S side of the entrance, which is situated on the E, where access to the summit is easiest, the wall widens to 3.5m; here a medial face was built within the thickness of the wall to give added stability, and the wall itself was based on a revetted foundation-platform. The lowest course of the S side-wall of the entrance-passage survives, but nothing remains of the other side, the present gap being 2m wide. The interior, which is level and grassy, is largely occupied by a subrectangular cultivation-plot of no great age, measuring some 10m square and enclosed by the remains of a stone- and-turf wall.
Visited June 1979
RCAHMS 1984
Measured Survey (1979)
Surveyed at 1:400. Published at 1:1000 (RCAHMS 1984, fig. 118A).
