Monument record 383 - DUN BARAVAT, LOCH BARAVAT, LEWIS

NB45NE 1 4617 5965.

(NB 462 597) Dun (NR) (Site of)
OS 6"map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1898)

There are the remains of a dun or broch, approached by a causeway, on the larger of the two islands in Loch Bharabhat.
In 1852 no portion of the wall could be traced, but its diameter was estimated at approx. 50ft.
Thomas classifies it as a broch and found "6 or 8ft of it remaining".
By 1914 it had become "a mound of tumbled stones about 70ft in diameter and rising 4ft above the water ... utterly destroyed" and listed as a site.
Name Book 1852; F W L Thomas 1890; RCAHMS 1928.

Thomas' plan indicates that this was a galleried dun occupying almost the whole of a small island at NB 4617 5965, but nothing survives except a scatter of stones. The causeway is still visible, but is submerged to a depth of 1ft.
Visited by OS (N K B) 15 June 1969.

'The monument...comprises the remains of a dun, a small fortified dwelling of Iron Age date. The area to be scheduled is approximately oval and measures a maximum of 30m E-W.'
HS Scheduling Document 1 December 1992.

Thomas, F. W. L., 1890, Archaeol Scot, 373 plan (Bibliographic reference). SWE7756.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 11, No. 36 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

I Armit, 1985, The Later Prehistoric Defensive Structures of Lewis and Harris, fig. 21 (Unpublished document). SWE1126.

T N and P G Dixon and Topping, 1986, Int J Nautical Archaeol Underwater Explor, 191 (Bibliographic reference). SWE665.

Name Book (County), 1998, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Book No. 2D, 36 (Unpublished document). SWE4254.