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Muie
Dun (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Muie
Classification Dun (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 5489
Site Number NC60SE 20
NGR NC 6719 0457
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5489
- Council Highland
- Parish Rogart
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC60SE 20 6719 0457.
NC 6719 0457. On the summit of an isolated rocky knoll is an ill-preserved dun enclosing an area 29.0m NE-SW by 13.0m transversely; this enclosed area has a considerable slope from the highest NE point down to the SW. The wall is collapsed and turf-covered, and its precise width cannot be determined, but it varies from a 4.5m spread and 0.7m high, to a 2.0m spread and 0.1m high; on the SW side the wall is virtually destroyed and overlaid by a modern field dyke. There are one or two base footings of the outer face around the north arc. There are two scarps which cross the enclosed area from NW to SE, whose purpose is unclear, but their presence perhaps suggests cultivation here. The position of the entrance cannot be determined; there is a break in the SE, or alternatively the entrance could have been in the destroyed SW arc. There is no evidence of outworks.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 24 March 1981.
Note (4 February 2015 - 31 May 2016)
This small fortification is situated on the sloping crest of a low hillock, which drops down from its summit on the NE. Roughly oval on plan, it measures about 29m from NE to SW 13m transversely (0.04ha) within a heavily robbed wall reduced to a bank between 2m and 4.5 thick and a maximum of 0.7m high; the position of the entrance is unknown, though there is a gap in the bank on the SE. Two scarps cutting across the interior suggested to John MaCrae, the OS surveyor who found the site that it has been cultivated over, though the upper may conceivably hide the wall-line of what was a circular structure standing on the very summit of the hillock.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2783
