<< Text Pages >> Inverpolly - Stone Fort or Dun in Scotland in Highlands
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Multi-periodSite Name: InverpollyCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 6.368 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Highlands Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Map Ref: NC06611551
Latitude: 58.086269N Longitude: 5.282011W
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 |
| 0 | no data |
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A vitrified dun, with annexe and outwork, at NC 0661 1551. The circular dun occupies the summit of a knoll, and measures c. 12.5m in diameter within a heavily vitrified wall which must have been at least 5.0m thick. A slight dip in the bank of debris in the SE is suggestive of an entrance but is probably misleading as the entrance would be expected more to the S.
Immediately outside the dun at a lower level are the remains of another heavily vitrified structure. Insufficient is visible, however, to establish its true relationship with the dun, though it seemslikely that it is a contemporary annexe rather than an earlier work. There is no defnite sign of an entrance.
Blocking the approach from the S is an outwork comprising a wall of small stones reduced almost to its foundation. At one point is a small mass of vitrifaction suggesting that this too was timber-laced and at least partly vitrified. An entrance is denoted by a gap in the rubble.
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