Monument record 1341 - RODELPARK, HARRIS

NG08SE 1 0502 8321.

(NG 0502 8321) Dun (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

A very dilapidated dun on the summit of a rocky knoll over 100ft above sea level. Traces of a wall (probably 8ft thick) indicate the building to have been circular with an outside diameter of 45ft. The interior is filled with a mass of stones. The SE extension of the summit of the Knoll has probably been enclosed by a wall forming an outer court c.60ft from the wall of the inner building.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.

The remains of a circular dun of which the base-stones of the outer face can be seen for most of its circumference indicating a diameter of 13.5m. The inner face is hidden under a mound of turf covered tumble, but what may be the remains of either a mural cell or gallery, or possibly a stabilising wall, can be seen within the wall thickness on the W and SW sides.
Around the edge of the rocky summit on which the dun stands, are the discontinuous remains of an enclosing wall of indeterminate width. At the N end is an entrance with a path, defined by set stones, from it to the N side of the dun. Within the wall in the S are the scant remains of several small buildings, probably shielings.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 7 July 1969.

R31 NG 05074 83178 (centre). Area of 'fort' c. 40 x 30m. Relatively sheer on south, east and west sides. Access presumably from north. Possible entrance on north side defined by stone edged access for c. 7m and c. 1m wide. Possible revetments at base at NG 05062 83192. Remains of possible revetments on top. Revetments on all sides. Height and thickness of revetments indeterminable. Modern cairn at centre overlying possible collapsed stone structure. Evidence of further collapsed revetments to south-east and south-west. Some face stones surviving at south-west. Remains of sub-oval structure c. 4 x 2m at south end at NG 05080 83162 but eroded at south-east and probably secondary. (RCAHMS No 121)

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 39, No. 121 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.