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Latitude: 56.5976 / 56°35'51"N
Longitude: -6.2361 / 6°14'10"W
OS Eastings: 140077
OS Northings: 753108
OS Grid: NM400531
Mapcode National: GBR BCZ8.Y2N
Mapcode Global: WGYBZ.5FPK
Entry Name: Dun nan Gall, dun
Scheduled Date: 10 February 2003
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM10564
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun
Location: Kilninian and Kilmore
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Oban South and the Isles
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument comprises a dun of prehistoric date, visible as upstanding remains, which lies on the summit of a rocky knoll about 850m S of Croig farmhouse.
The dun is roughly rectangular in shape and measures internally about 26m from NW to SE by 13.5m transversely. The NE flank of the knoll is protected by sheer rock-faces up to 9m high, but on the SW the cliffs diminish in height, and in the middle of that side grassy slopes offer comparatively easy access to the summit.
There are no traces of defences on the NE, where the natural strength of the knoll rendered aritificial protection unnecessary; but on all other sides the dun has been defended by a dry-stone wall, now reduced to a low grass-grown band of core material not more than 3m thick, in which several stones of both faces can still be seen. The entrance is situated on the NW, the wall terminals being staggered on each side, presumably because the margin of the summit severely indented at this point; a modern dry-stone wall has been built across its mouth.
Duns are fortified settlement sites of Iron Age date (500 BC to AD 500).
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material is likely to survive. It is irregular in plan with maximum dimensions of 70m NW-SE and 53m trnasversely as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to contribute to an understanding of later prehistoric defended settlement and economy. Its importance is increased by its proximity to other monuments of potentially contemporary date.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NM 45 SW 3.
Bibliography:
RCAHMS (1980) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 3: Mull, Tiree, Coll and Northern Argyll excluding the early medieval and later monuments of Iona), Edinburgh, 111-12, No. 212.
SRC SMR (1995) 'Argyll & Bute District, new sites added to the SMR, 1 November 1994 to 31 October 1995', Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 1995, Strathclyde Regional Council SMR, 60.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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