Monument record 593 - DUN TROSSARY, SOUTH UIST

NF71NE 3 7597 1661.

(NF 7597 1661) Dun (NR) (Site of)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Dun Trossary marked " Dun (site of)" on the OS map is probably, but not certainly, a chambered cairn. In 1962, the south end of the mound was 10ft high, the height diminishing towards the north. A vertical stone 9 3/4' high is 27ft from the south end and another stone,set parallel to it 17 3/4' to the north, projected 2 1/4 ft above the mound. A possible passage about 4 3/4ft wide was noticed immediately west of the stones, and a third upright, 14ft north-west of the northern stones, projected 1 3/4ft and may have been part of a chamber. The mound is greatly disturbed and possibly increased by secondary structures.
RCAHMS 1928; A S Henshall 1972.

This much mutilated cairn, known locally as Dun Trossary, is as described above.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Around the base of the cairn, on the SW and SE sides are four sheiling-like structures; to the north are four others.
Visited by OS (E G C) 13 May 1965.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 123, No. 432 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 36-7 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.