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Cape Wrath Hotel
Dun (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Cape Wrath Hotel
Classification Dun (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 4769
Site Number NC36NE 10
NGR NC 3845 6539
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Durness
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC36NE 10 3845 6539.
(NC 3845 6539) Dun (NR)
OS 6" map, (1962)
The remains of a defensive structure, probably a dun, with outworks, on a small coastal spur. It survives as a heavily quarried mound approximately 21.5m in diameter on to which modern field clearance has been piled. Neither facing stones nor entrance are evident. It may be a broch from which all the building stone has been removed, but its present condition and the quantity of small stone visible where it is best preserved in the W suggest that it is a dun. Curving round the W arc and cutting across the spur is a ditch, about 5.0m in average width and 0.7m deep, whilst in the S along the top of the natural slope are traces of a wall. This has probably been the continuation of an outwork protecting the easy approach from the E, which has been largely destroyed by a road.
Surveyed at 1:2500 (OS [WDJ] 8 April 1960.
Visited by OS (A A) 20 July 1971.
No change to the previous field report. It has the appearance of a defended homestead rather than a dun or broch (cf NC36NE 5 and NC75NW 14).
Visited by OS (J B) 14 November 1978.
