Monument record 885 - DUN THOMAIDH, VALLAY, NORTH UIST

NF77NE 3 7590 7581.

(NF 7590 7581) Dun Tomi (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Dun Thomaidh occupies the summit of a steep rocky islet in Vallay Sound, surrounded at approx. high-water level by a wall of large blocks of stones, up to c. 3ft in height.
Within this, at distances varying from 15 to 30ft, is a second wall surrounding the remains of a house and other smaller buildings and about 50ft in diameter. At the east side of the outer wall there are traces of a small harbour.
The site is connected to a tidal islet on the shore of Vallay by a causeway 87 yards long and 7 1/2 to 9 1/2ft wide, with a gap of 12 or 13ft, probably original, at its south ern end.
Finds included implements and/or fragments of stone, flint, bone, bronze and iron, and the usual kitchen-midden debris.
E Beveridge 1911; E Beveridge and J G Callander 1931; L Scott 1948; RCAHMS 1928.

Although much dilapidated and overgrown the remains of this structure are generally as described above. The harbour and pier could not be located, and the causeway and the south side of the outer wall were under water at the time of investigation.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (W D J) 1 July 1965.

Thomas, F. W. L., 1890, Archaeol Scot, 042 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7756.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 212-13 illust. (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 68, No. 212 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

E and J G Beveridge and Callen, 1930-1, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 317-22 plan (Bibliographic reference). SWE1107.

L Scott, 1948, Proc Prehist Soc, 76 (Bibliographic reference). SWE6434.

Centre for Field Archaeology, 2005, Coastal Zone Assessment Survey, North Uist (Bibliographic reference). SWE41070.