Monument record 1183 - OBAN TRUMISGARRY, NORTH UIST

NF87SE 2 8726 7470.

(NF 8726 7470) Dun (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

The Commission describes this as '...the mere fragment of a dun ... a circular islet some 40ft in diameter, rising about 4ft above the water. All the stones of the outer wall face have been removed and nothing remains but an irregular stony mound. It is connected to the north shore of the loch by a causeway almost hidden by mud. Some 25ft west of the causeway's landward end is a curved setting of large blocks facing the loch, the western extremity of which is carried into the water'. Beveridge says a 'very few large stones remain of the structure on the east side of the island, and on the bank, at the shore end of the causeway, is a small circular mound that was evidently occupied by a building probably associated with the dun.'
RCAHMS 1928; E Beveridge 1911.

The much mutilated remains of an island dun, generally as described by both the Commission and Beveridge, except that the causeway can no longer be traced.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 20 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 255 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 97, No. 324 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

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