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MHG5816 - Meall an Duna

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NG35SW 1.01 3368 5408.

(NG 3368 5408) Dun (NR)
OS 6"map, (1969)

A fort on a ridge named Meall an Duna. It is sub-rectangular on plan measuring internally approximately 30.0m N to S by 20.0m transversely within a robbed wall 3.6m thick, in the N, where both inner and outer facing stones survive intermittently, and traceable elsewhere only as a rickle of stones indicating the remains of the wall core. In the W a broken line of facing stones at the brink of the slope above the cliff seem more likely to be a stabilizing face rather than the outer wall face. The entrance is not evident. A ruinous modern wall crosses the fort from N to S.
RCAHMS 1928; Visited by OS (ASP) 1 May 1961 and (RL) 20 October 1971.

This fort measures 28m from N to S by 18.3m transversely within a wall 4m in maximum thickness. The wall is best preserved on the N where it is about 1m high. There are traces of a stony bank running across the interior from N to S.
Visited by RCAHMS (SH) 22 November 1990.

This site was included in the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland online database. See link below for site entry. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NG 3367 5408 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG35SW
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	DUIRINISH

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