Monument record 1386 - LOCH AN DUIN, SCALPAY

NG29NW 2 2247 9659.

(NG 2247 9659) Dun (NR) (Site of)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

J Wedderspoon (see F O Blundell 1913) refers to two islands in Loch an Duin about 20 yards apart, both of which have the appearance of being artificial, and said to be defended sites. A causeway from the shore (said to be submerged by the RCAHMS) is continued between the two islands.
That to which the published name refers, is described by the Name Book (1878) as "a small green island" the site of "an ancient fort", and by he RCAHMS as having the shape of a truncated cone covered with vegetation, unlike the other islands in the loch.
F O Blundell 1913; Name Book 1878; RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.

The scant remains of a dun defined by a discontinuous outer wall-face around the edge of a natural islet which has possibly been artificially enlarged to accomodate it.
Visited by OS (N K B) 7 July 1969.

F O Blundell, 1912-13, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 298 (Bibliographic reference). SWE1455.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 45, No. 145 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

Name Book (County), 1998, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Book No. 4, 320 (Unpublished document). SWE4254.