Skye, Dun Gearymore
Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Skye, Dun Gearymore
Classification Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 71388
Site Number NG26SW 1.09
NGR NG 23648 64920
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71388
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (28 September 1990)
NG26SW 1.09 2365 6492
See also NG26SW 1.08.
There are three, and possibly four, much denuded hut-circles on the hill-top to the NNW of Dun Gearymore, defined by kerbs of boulders; the fourth survives as a semi-circular arc of stones on the W edge of the hill-top. One of the hut-circles (259) is built between the broch and its outwork and is roughly defined by an inner kerb around a platform 7.3m in diameter; the possible entrance to the NW may be a re-use of an entrance in the outwork. The best, if patchily preserved hut-circle lies to the NW, outside the outwork; 6.5m in diameter, it has both an inner and outer kerb 1.4m in thickness and 0.35m in height. The third hut-circle (257), immediately to the E is cut by a hut (256) on its E side.
(WAT90 257-259)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD), 28 September 1990.
