Description

The monument comprises the remains of a galleried dun, a type of fortified settlement, dating from the Iron Age (800 BC – AD 400). The dun was formerly on an island within the loch, but lower water levels have left the dun as a mound on a slight knoll in marshy ground. It is visible as grass-covered mound,  a grass-grown bank and a raised causeway, situated on the southeast end of a low rise on the shore of Loch Grogarry. 

The dun is subcircular on plan, measuring about 13m in diameter and up to about 1.5m in height. Traces of what may be an inner wall face are visible in the interior. A second wall, visible as a thick grass-grown bank, runs around the northwest  edge of the mound and may be the remains of an outwork. Projecting from the northwest side of the dun for a distance of about 20m is a line of stones, the remains of a causeway which would have linked the former island with the shore.

The scheduled area is irregular and includes the remains described above and an area around within which evidence relating to the monument's construction, use and abandonment is expected to survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map. The scheduled area specifically excludes the above ground elements of the post and wire fence.

 

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

The monument is of national importance as a well-preserved example of a late prehistoric island fortification, with its damp location holding out the possibility of good preservation of organic deposits with information, accessible to excavation, about contemporary domestic life and agricultural practices.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Canmore

https://canmore.org.uk/site/10101/

Source: Historic Environment Scotland