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Dun Bachlach
Dun (Later Prehistoric)
Site Name Dun Bachlach
Classification Dun (Later Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 22996
Site Number NM83NE 1
NGR NM 86929 38685
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Ardchattan And Muckairn (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM83NE 1 8692 3868.
(NM 8693 3868) Dun Bachlach (NR) (site of)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1977)
Dun Bachlach occupies the top of an isolated rocky stack 15m in height, situated within 50m of the shore. Except on the NE and W, where there are steep grassy slopes, the stack presents almost sheer rock-faces in all directions. The dun wall is built round the margin of the summit area, the lowest course of the outer face being bedded in the sides of the stack at a distance of as much as 2.6m below the crest. Now largely reduced to a band of stony rubble in which only a few facing-stones are visible, the wall appears to have varied in thickness from 1.8m on the S to about 3.6m on the W. The entrance, about 1.5m wide, is on the NE, where a spine of rock affords a convenient approach. Internally the dun measures 15m from NE to SW by a maximum of 6m transversely.
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1969.
When visited in November 1969, the fragmentary remains of Dun Bachlach were generally as described by the RCAHMS.
Visited by OS (W D J) 11 November 1969.
Measured Survey (1968)
Surveyed with alidade and plane-table at 1mm:1ft. Redrawn in ink and published at the reduced scale of 1:1000 (RCAHMS 1975, fig. 60).
Field Visit (May 1969)
NM 869 386. This dun (Fig. 60, plan), 800 m W of Balure farmhouse, occupies the top of an isolated rocky stack 15 m in height, which is situated within 50 m of the shore. Except on the NE and W, where there are steep grassy slopes, the stack presents almost sheer rock faces in all directions. The dun wall is built round the margin of the summit area, the lowest course of the outer face being bedded in the sides of the stack at a distance of as much as 2·6 m below the crest. Now largely reduced to a band of stony rubble in which only a few facing-stones are visible, the wall appears to have varied in thickness from 1·8 m on the S to about 3.6 m on the W. The entrance, about 1·5 m wide, is on the NE, where a spine of rock affords a convenient approach. Internally the dun measures 15 m from NE to SW by a maximum of 6 m transversely.
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1969.
