Monument record 1420 - DUN MINGULAY, MINGULAY

NL58SW 1 5477 8230.

(NL 5477 8230) Dun Mingulay (NAT) Fort (NR)
OS 1:10,000map, (1971)

Promontory Fort, Dun Mingulay: It is defended by a stone wall built across the end of the peninsula facing the approaching ridge. The wall has for the most part disappeared, but in one place shows an outer face of dry-stone building standing some 3' in height.
RCAHMS 1928.

Dun Mingulay, a promontory fort situated at the SW tip of Mingulay, is defended by high sheer cliffs on three sides, and by a grass-covered dry-stone wall, c. 1.6m thick, built across the NE end of the peninsula. The outer face of the wall is visible along the whole of its length to a maximum height of 1.6m, but only a vague trace of the inner wall face remains. The entrance, about 1.0m wide, appears to be at the S end of the wall.
A grass-covered earthen bank, 4.5m wide and 0.8m high extends 20.0m in a NW direction from the inner face of the wall at a point midway between the N and S ends, but this appears to be a secondary feature.
Surveyed at 1:10560.
Visited by OS (N K B) 20 May 1965.

Centred NL 545 820: On the S slopes of Dun Mingulay are several unclassifiable structures. The best preserved is an oval cell measuring internally 3.0m by 2.2m within 3 courses of corbelled walling. Other structures include a 3-sided structure about 1.5m square and two wall-courses high; also the remains of another oval cell and several amorphous piles of stones.
These structures are all situated in exposed positions and cannot be related to each other, or to the dun.
Visited by OS (D W R) 29 August 1973.

MY376 Fort. Dun Mingulay (?Iron Age). Coastal promontory. Dun Mingulay is a so-called defended promontory fort consisting of a wall across the narrow neck of the promontory. No contemporary structures were found inside the defended area.
Branigan & Foster 2000, 121

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 134, No. 452 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

Keith Branigan & Patrick Foster, 2000, From Barra to Berneray: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Southern Isles ... (Bibliographic reference). SWE41033.