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Multi-periodSite Name: Tigh An DuineCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 6.356 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Isle of Mull Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Map Ref: NM36944013
Latitude: 56.479575N Longitude: 6.273941W
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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Stone Fort or Dun in Isle of Mull
Dun, Tigh an Duine: The summit of a rocky crag on the SE coast of Gometra, about 100m SSW of the headland known as Tigh an Duine, is occupied by the remains of a roughly circular dun and its outwork. Precipitous rock-faces up to 9m high provide strong natural protection on nearly all sides, and at present the only easy means of access to the summit is bay way of a narrow, but gently sloping, grassy path on the NW.
The dun measures 11m in internal diameter and has been defended by a dry-stone wall which varies from 2.4m to 3.7m in thickness. The wall has been reduced, for the most part, to a grass-covered band of stony debris in which several stretches of inner and outer facing stones survive in situ. The outer face is best preserved on the E, immediately N of the entrance, where it stands 0.6m high in two courses. Within the body of the wall on the SE there are traces, too indefinite to plan, of what may have been an internal revetment, and on the S, lying at right angles to the line of the inner face, of which it forms part, there is a large slab which may have served as a corner-stone of a passage leading into an intramural cell or gallery. The entrance of the dun has been checked for a door and measures approximately 0.8m wide at its outer end.
Source: Canmore
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