Monument record 1013 - DUN AN T-SIAMAIN, LOCH DUN AN T-SIAMAIN, EAVAL, NORTH UIST

NF85NE 4 8857 5947.

(NF 8857 5947) Dun an t-Siamain (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

Dun an t-Siamain lies on an island in, and gives its name to, a loch in North Uist.
It is somewhat circular, 44ft N-S by 52ft E-W over walls 52 to 75ins thick. There are signs of a doorway, 33ins wide, slightly south of the island end of a causeway, which zig-zags to the eastern shore of the loch, 25 yards away. There is a boat entrance to the south. Traces of a circular cell, 51ins across, can be seen on the east edge of the island, and remains of another, apparently dome-shaped, with a base diameter of about 4ft, are in the north.
To the north of the shore end of the causeway, there is a walled recess in the bank which probably served as a cattle shelter.
E Beveridge 1911.

Dun an t-Siamain is generally as described above, but is oval in plan, measuring 14.0m N-S by 9.0m E-W with walls 1.3m wide.
The walled recess, described as a cattle-shelter by Beverdige, is on the eastern shore of the loch and appears to be a relatively modern shieling.
Across the island end of the causeway there is a defensive wall 1.0 m. wide by 1.5m high and 3.0m long.
Surveyed at 1/1250 and 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (R D) 9 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 169-70 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 67, No. 211 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

J N G and M Ritchie and Harman, 1985, Exploring Scotland's Heritage: Argyll and the Western Isles, 128, no. 56 (Bibliographic reference). SWE6206.