Monument record 1181 - LOCH AN DUIN, NORTH UIST

NF87SE 18 8927 7416.

About 50 yards form the eastern shore towards the northern end of Loch an Duin, there is a small oval flat rocky islet surrounded at the water's edge by a ring of tumbled stone, evidently the remains of a defensive wall, entirely destroyed except perhaps on the western side, where outside a small rock there seems to be one course of the outer face of the wall. The dun measures some 43ft from east to west and 34ft from north to south.
The island is connected to the eastern shore by a deeply submerged zig-zag causeway with one (RCAHMS 1928) or two (E Beveridge 1911) gaps in it.
RCAHMS 1928; E Beveridge 1911.

The island at NF 8927 7416 is largely artificial, composed mainly of loose rubble stones on and around natural rock. No internal structure could be identified but the causeway is distinct though submerged. The gaps could not be located.
Visited by OS (R D) 21 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 152 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.