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Latitude: 56.5892 / 56°35'20"N
Longitude: -6.2232 / 6°13'23"W
OS Eastings: 140809
OS Northings: 752120
OS Grid: NM408521
Mapcode National: GBR CC09.J86
Mapcode Global: WGYBZ.CNS1
Entry Name: Druimghigha, dun 340m SSW of
Scheduled Date: 10 February 2003
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM10566
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.
The monument lies some 340m SSW of Druimghigha, on a low rocky knoll between the Allt Torr a' Bhacain and the Allt Dun Auladh burns. The remains of the dun measure 15.3m by 7m within a wall about 2.4m thick. The E side of the knoll is a sheer rock-face rising up to 9m in height; whereas the W side, by contrast, is a grassy slope little more than 2m high.
The wall has been largely reduced to a substantial spread of rubble (core material), but a number of massive facing stones, forming the lowest course of each face, survive on the SW. The entrance was probably situated on the WSW, where for a short distance the spread of rubble is thinner than elsewhere. The interior is overgrown by heather and scrub.
Duns are fortified settlement sites of Iron Age date (around 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 circular with a diameter of 20m, 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, architecture 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 2.
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, 104, No. 193.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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