Monument record MHG2651 - Dun Mor Fort
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Location
Grid reference | Centred NH 4574 4515 (80m by 80m) (Buffered by site type) |
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Map sheet | NH44NE |
Old County | INVERNESS-SHIRE |
Civil Parish | KILMORACK |
Geographical Area | INVERNESS |
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Dun Mor (NR)
OS 6"map, (1959)
Occupying the summit of an isolated crag is a fort named Dun Mor. It is sub-oval on plan, measuring 24.2 m NNE-SSW by 16.0 m within a tumbled wall in which roughly coursed outer and inner faces can be seen to a maximum height of four courses round most of the perimeter giving a wall thickness varying between 4.5 m and 5.9 m. The entrance, in the SE, is choked by tumble. At the higher N side of the interior is an apparently natural platform about 10.0 m across.
An outer wall extends around the E and S sides of the fort at a lower level, ending on the cliffs to the N and W. It is reduced to its lowest course with outer and inner faces visible giving an average thickness of about 3.0 m. A mutilated entrance is visible in the SE in line with the entrance to the fort and at the easiest point of approach. A further wall to the S encloses the shoulder of the crag. It is denuded and for most of its length only the lowest course of the outer face can be seen but on the E side several inner facing-stones are visible giving a thickness of 3.2 m.(Visited by RCAHMS 1957)
Planned at 1/1250
Divorced survey at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (R L) 7 April 1970; R W Feachem 1963; T D Wallace 1886
Dun Mor: a massively constructed dun, generally as described in the previous report.
RCAHMS 1979
This is a dun and is as described in the previous field report.
Survey Diagram.
Visited by OS (J M) 11 February 1981
The site was photographed by R Spencer-Jones on 23/09/2014. <1>
Sources/Archives (6)
- --- SHG1192 Text/Publication/Article: Wallace, T. 1886. Notes on ancient remains in the Beauly Valley, Inverness-shire. Proc Soc Antiq Scot Volume 20. 340-55. 343.
- --- SHG2187 Text/Publication/Volume: Feachem, R W. 1963. A Guide to Prehistoric Scotland. 1st. 128.
- --- SHG2673 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1979. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of North-east Inverness, Inverness District, Highland Region. . 17, No. 105.
- --- SHG8607 Image/Photograph(s)/Aerial Photograph: Aigas, Dun Mor. Colour Print. .
- --- SHG8608 Image/Photograph(s)/Aerial Photograph: Aigas, Dun Mor. Colour Print. .
- <1> SHG26674 Image/Photograph(s): Spencer-Jones, R.. 2014. Photographs of Dun Mor Fort. Colour digital. Yes. Digital.
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Record last edited
Oct 27 2014 2:54PM