Monument record MHG7730 - An Dun Fort

The defensive structures are not on the outer part of the promontory, but on the higher point closer to the land edge. No overall plan of defences is clear as there is projecting natural rock in places through the turf. But on the SW edge of the area there is disturbance to the site (animal burrow?) and drystone walling can be clearly seen within. A little further to the E of this close to the approach path an area of rock appears to be vitrified (see photo) - HAW 5/2004

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Site of Dun (NR). (Supposed Pictish Fort).

A small fort (R W Feachem 1963) consisting of one enclosure on a promontory, named 'An Dun', which is cut off by a ditch crossed by a causeway. The enclosure, about 65' each way, is formed by the grass-grown remains of a wall about 2' high, with, on S, an entrance flanked by vitrified matter.
The ditch varies from 7' to 10' in width and causeway, formed by an undug traverse, is 7' wide.
The tip of the promontory is cut off by a natural gully, but there is no evidence to suggest that it has been a separate fort.
There is a local tradition of a mediaeval castle on or near this site. (J H Dixon 1886)
R W Feachem 1963; A Graham 1951; J H Dixon 1886.

The fort, measuring 20m N-S by 14m E-W, is as described above.
There are faint traces of a grass-covered stone bank, on landward side of fort, above a fairly steep rocky slope extending along the top of cliffs. This is possibly an outer line of defence, or traces of the later castle.
Surveyed at 1/2500. Visited by OS (N K B) 5 April 1965.