Dunan Muasdale
Dun (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Dunan Muasdale
Classification Dun (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 38575
Site Number NR64SE 28
NGR NR 6903 4029
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38575
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Killean And Kilchenzie
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR64SE 28 6903 4029.
(NR 6903 4027) Dunan Muasdale (Fort) (NR).
OS 6" map, (1924)
Dun, Dunan Muasdale. On a rocky knoll at a height of 90m OD, there is an almost circular dun measuring 13.5m by 12m internally. The wall has consisted of a core of stones faced on either side with massive boulders, and has measured 4m in thickness. The position of the entrance is not apparent.
RCAHMS 1971, visited 1960.
Dunan Muasdale (name verified) is as described and planned by RCAHMS.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J B) 6 December 1977.
Field Visit (10 June 1943)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
