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The Bastard
Dun (Period Unassigned)
Site Name The Bastard
Classification Dun (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 38722
Site Number NR71SE 2
NGR NR 7612 1220
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38722
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Southend
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR71SE 2 7612 1220
(NR 7612 1220) Fort (NR).
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1924)
Dun. On a narrow shelf halfway down the E flank of the hill there are the remains of a dun. To the W and S the hill rises abruptly over a series of rocky outcrops, while to the E there is a steep drop of 105m to the shore some 185m away. Oval no plan, the dun measures about 15m by 12m internally and is entered from the E, where a short stretch of the outer face is visible. Here the wall is 4.0m thick on either side of a straight passageway, 0.9m wide, which exhibits no trace of door-checks. Elsewhere, however, the wall is represented only by a turf-covered spread of stony debris.
A few yards to the SE of the dun there are the fragmentary remains of an outer wall, consisting of a ragged band of stones about 1.2m in thickness, which has been drawn across the shelf to provide additional protection for the entrance.
RCAHMS 1971, visited 1960.
No change to the RCAHM (1971) report. This dun is noticeable for its poor defensive situation.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (JM), 7 October 1977.
Field Visit (16 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This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project.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.
