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Jura, Druim Loisgte
Fort (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Jura, Druim Loisgte
Classification Fort (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Canmore ID 38272
Site Number NR57SE 5
NGR NR 5625 7112
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38272
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Jura
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR57SE 5 5625 7112
(NR 5615 7111) Fort (possible)
Information from RCAHMS to OS.
Centred at NR 562 711 is a NE-SW orientated rocky ridge with the undulating summit measuring approximately 55.0m by 14.0m maximum width. It displays no trace or remains of walling except for a low, curving band of rubble at the SW end. This is 3.5m to 4.0m wide, about 16.0m long, turf-covered and incorporating rock outcrop. There is no inner face visible, but a small number of stones in line may indicate the remains of an outer face. A partial gap in the rubble may have been an entrance. The remainder of the ridge is undefended leaving several vulnerable points of access. It would seem unlikely from the remains that this was a fort or dun (unless unfinished), but no logical explanation can account for the crude walling at the SW end.
Visited by OS (J B), 3 May 1978.
Field Visit (April 1979)
NR 562 711. Traces of walling, which may be the remains of a fort, are visible near the NE end of Druirn Loisgte, the steep-sided rocky ridge, some 20m high, that forms the blunt seaward end of the headland between Lowlandman's Bay and the Bay of the Small Isles. The best stretch consists of a band of rubble about 3m thick and up to 1m high, drawn across the ridge to cut off an area at its NE tip about 50m long from NE to SW by 20m wide; a smaller stretch of rubble can be seen on the NW side, where the ridge is divided by a transverse gully.
RCAHMS 1984, visited April 1979
Note (8 October 2014 - 27 October 2016)
Traces of a wall can be seen barring access to the NE end of a ridge of outcrop about 20m in height at the seaward end of the headland at Ardfernal. At best the wall is reduced to a bank of rubble some 3m in thickness by 1m in height, and the rocky interior measures about 50m from NE to SW by 20m transversely. The OS suggested a gap in the rubble possibly marked the position of an entrance on the SW, but this passes without comment in the description by the RCAHMS investigators who originally found it.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 27 October 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2184
