Auchadaduie
Dun (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Auchadaduie
Classification Dun (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) An Dunan
Canmore ID 38441
Site Number NR63NE 16
NGR NR 6830 3665
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38441
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Killean And Kilchenzie
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR63NE 16 6830 3665
(NR 6833 3664) An Dunan (Fort) (NR)
OS 6" map (1924)
This dun is situated in trees at a height of 45m OD; it occupies a strong natural position on the western tip of a narrow promontory between the left bank of the Barr Water and a small unnamed tributary. The dun probably measured about 15m by 12m internally, but no trace of the enclosing wall survives on the NW, probably as a result of the erosion of the cliff face which falls abruptly to the river on this side. Elsewhere the wall is represented by a band of stony debris, up to 1.2m in height and some 4.6m in thickness, in which a few external facing-stones are visible at the SW end. No entrance can now be seen and, apart from a ruinous wall of no great age, the interior is featureless.
RCAHMS 1971, visited 1960.
The dun is as described and planned by RCAHMS.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (JB) 8 December 1977.
