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Beinn Dubhain
Settlement (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Beinn Dubhain
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Canmore ID 7192
Site Number NC92SW 33
NGR NC 9480 2033
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7192
- Council Highland
- Parish Kildonan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC92SW 33 9480 2033.
At NC 94802033 on a low rise at the foot of a SE-facing slope, is a low roughly circular structure. It is 0.8m high and its flat top, about 27.0m diameter, though covered by loose heather-obscured stones, suggests a deliberately levelled area. There are stones in the base of the scarp in the S half which suggest revetting. On the summit periphery, in the ESE are two earthfast boulder slabs, 1.5m apart, reminiscent of a portal feature. Concentric with the W arc of the mound, about 5.0m distant, is a slight bank fronting a ditch 0.6m deep; the latter continues a curve towards the SE but deviating away from the mound, and opening out on the natural downslope. There are tenuous indications the ditch may have continued also round the N arc onto the E side of the mound to again open out on the downslope in the S.
The date and purpose of this structure is uncertain, but it may be the remains of a homestead and associated drainage.
Surveyed at 1:10,560.
Visited by OS (J M) 16 December 1976
