Monument record MHG4070 - Dun Knock

NG60NE 5 6800 0983.

(NG 6800 0983) Dun (NR) (Site of)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

About 300 yards W of Loch Baravaig is a rocky eminence, very steep on all sides exept the S, from which it is approached over a gradually ascending ridge. The pear-shaped plateau on the summit, which stands from 30ft - 50ft higher than the adjoining land and 250ft OD, has been defended by a massive wall of drystone building, which seems to have been about 10ft thick, and which can be traced along its whole circumference, although on its W flank it has nearly disappeared. The best preserved portion is on the E side where the tumbled mass of stone rises 3ft above the interior. The main axis runs NW - SE (this should be NE-SW) and along this line the dun measures internally some 75ft, while it is 34ft across the N and 30ft across the S half. The latter part, which stands about 5ft higher than the former, seems to have been cut off from it by a curved wall, thus forming an inner defence. The fort has been approached over the ridge to the S, a narrow pathway, apparently built up on the exterior, curves round the outside of the SW are the wall for a short distance, when it enters the wall and is carried for a distance of about 30ft between the wall of the inner defence and the outer wall before it reaches the courtyard occupying the N portion of the dun. At the SE corner of the courtyard abutting on the wall is a heap of stones about 10ft in diameter, probably the remains of a circular hut.
On a small plateau about 15 yards to the S and 15ft lower than the enceinte is a circular setting of boulders with an internal diameter of 6ft, while the remains of a wall a few feet to the W of it can be traced running N-S for some 10 yards.
The interior of the dun is covered with grass, but on the top of the drystone wall at both N and S ends is a layer of peat 1ft 6ins thick. RCAHMS 1928.

A dun as described by the RCAHMS and in a ruinous condition. The "circular setting of boulders" is a ruined shieling.
Visited by OS (A C) 14 June 1961.