<< Our Photo Pages >> Dun Dige - Round Barrow(s) in Scotland in Highlands
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dun DigeCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 5.134 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Highlands Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Fort William
Map Ref: NN126720
Latitude: 56.801671N Longitude: 5.070692W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Round Barrow (Saucer) in Highlands.
Coming from Fort William take the Glen Nevis road that leads to the Stiell Falls. A small road goes up the side of the Glen Nevis Restaurant and Bar (I suggest leaving your vehicle in the carpark).
The road takes a slight detour to the left behind said building and then straightens up. In the field in front of the white cottage, on your left still, is a small clump of trees that marks Dun Dige 'Dun of the Dyke'. If I had known it was this close to the main road I would have gone earlier in the week to perhaps better effect. Once you see the size of it you will be sure that it is a saucer barrow only much later re-used as a fortlet (which was burnt down some time after 1386 by a rival clan supposedly - in the NMRS there is a slight hesitancy about the Sorlie connection as an early stronghold of theirs). The tree at the back is quite large (though I may be speaking from an Orcadian viewpoint here) and the two at the front fairly so. These stand on a short flat mound but there appears to be a 'platform' in front of this. About the whole is a dark annular ring of damp-loving vegetation that delineates the moat. Climbing over the gate I found myself just over knee-deep in still dewy grass. At the back of the mound there is a small but not too shallow pan-shaped depression that I take to have been the entrance. Some smallish boulders can be seen around there, probably part of a wall. Probably needs to be seen when the vegatation isn't quite so lush if you are to make more out.
RCAHMS NMRS no. NN17SW 4
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