Monument record MHG9483 - Dun, 930m SSE of Cape Wrath Hotel

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 3845 6539 (80m by 80m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC36NE
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish DURNESS

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Amended schedule 5.6.2003 see secondary file - HAW 6/2003

(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 {W D J} 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.

NW SUT Local Plan, May 1987: P23/2.36.
J Aitken : 11/06/01.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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