Monument record 1433 - DUN, CASTLEBAY, BARRA

NL69NE 2 6688 9810.

(NL 66869809) Dun (NR)
OS 6'map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Grass-grown rocky mound. No certain trace of dun, but an ideal position. (Also ideal for stone robbing.)
OS 6'map annotated by A L F Rivet, (ass. archaeol officer) 23 November 1959.

Situation as described by Rivet (OS field surveyor). This mound adjoins the S end of a farmhouse. The occupier, Mrs Macauley, states that 'her father remembers seeing earthenware pottery scattered on the ground when the area was cleared to build the present house, and that many stone were also removed'.
Revised at 1/2500 (site only).
Visited by OS (R B) 16 May 1965.

(NL 6688 9810) Dun (NR) (site of)
OS 1:10,000 map, 1971.

C2: A small flat-topped hill; no traces of any structures at all, and a complete absence of building stone. (Visited 1991)
NMRS MS/595/6.

18. Castle Bay (K2)
Site type: site of dun?
Alleged site of totally destroyed 'dun'. A small flat-topped rocky hill. No traces of any structure were visible on it. Observation of a pipe trench cut alongside the eas side of the hill revealed no archaeology at all.
Branigan and Grattan 1998, 23

Also in Branigan and Foster 2000, 23, entered as K2 also.

Keith Branigan & John Grattan, 1998, Coastal Assessment Survey Barra and Vatersay, 23 (Bibliographic reference). SWE41024.

Keith Branigan & Patrick Foster, 2000, From Barra to Berneray: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Southern Isles ..., 23 (Bibliographic reference). SWE41033.