Description

The monument consists of an irregularly shaped dun defended by an outwork to the NW. The dun has an unusually wide entrance with a door check. Preservation of the interior is good and the gate details and outwork add to its interest as a field monument. Mull, which is a well-defined study area with considerable variations in topography and surface geology, has 29 duns, 20 forts and 2 brochs which are sufficiently well preserved.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

The monument is of national importance to the theme of iron age settlement. This concentration of Iron Age structures has particular importance to several themes within the broad area of Iron Age settlement studies. These include relationships in time and space of forts and duns, the origins of galleried duns and brochs, the study of social units, the relationships of duns to arable areas and more generally the land use and surface geology. In essence, then, it is the large number of both duns and forts in a restricted area of very variable geology and broad topography which makes the duns of Mull important.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Bibliography

RCAHMS records the site as NM42NE 3.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland