Monument record 1094 - DUN BAN, LOCH CARAVAT, CARINISH, NORTH UIST

NF86SW 20 8429 6088.

(NF 8429 6088) Dun Ban (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

Dun Ban, Caravat (Carinish) is comparatively modern, probably 14th-15th century, and is unique in having its walls built with shell-mortar. Its shape is also individual.
The surrounding wall still exists 6ft thick, with a boat-entrance at the south. It is alleged that the fort was roofed with flat stones supported by wooden beams until c. 1850.
A submerged causeway is said to have run to the south shore of the loch. E Beveridge 1911; RCAHMS 1928.

As described above except that the boat-entrance is in the SE. The walls are still substantial and stand to a maximum height of 2.5m. No trace was seen of any causeway connecting the island to the mainland.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (W D J) 12 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 178-80 illust. (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 69, No. 215 plan fig. 126; illusts. figs. 123, 125 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.