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Submitted by SumDoood on Tuesday, 05 April 2016  Page Views: 12630

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Dun Ringill
Country: Scotland County: Highlands Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Nearest Town: Broadford  Nearest Village: Kirkibost
Map Ref: NG561170  Landranger Map Number: 32
Latitude: 57.178758N  Longitude: 6.037214W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 4

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SumDoood visited on 26th Feb 2016 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Don't expect a conventional broch - this one seems to have been much altered. It must have been an important area, there are three other Duns before you reach the southern tip of the peninsula, and there is a large round cairn, a good stone circle, and other sites nearby.

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Dun Ringill
Dun Ringill submitted by SumDoood : It's a good location. If you can't approach by kayak or similar, walk out along the small stack on the right and turn back for an impression of how the broch might have looked when it was complete and most travel of any significant distance was by sea. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Remains of a Dùn / Broch on an isolated clifftop site. The entrance and up to about 2 metres of wall are visible from the landward side.

There is a small car park at Kilmarie and a pleasant walk through woodland and along the coast (about 1/2 mile) to get to the site.

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Dun Ringill submitted by SumDoood : That apparently intentionally outward leaning wall again. And that's a little of Bla Bheinn in the top LH corner. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Dun Ringill submitted by SumDoood : I'd estimate the entrance as being at least twice as high as, say, a Glenelg broch. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Dun Ringill submitted by SumDoood : I can't get my head around this place. I've read elsewhere that it was modified in the 14th century, and I do wonder how much might have fallen into the sea. And I can't understand, let alone explain, why this skilfully built wall, apparently an exterior wall, curves outwards. Dusk was coming on fast, but I did look and I did fail to notice any indication of broch-like intramural walkways. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Dun Ringill submitted by Andy B : View from the south showing the construction of the wall. It is of much smaller stones than most of the duns on Skye. Copyright John Allan and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Dun Ringill submitted by SumDoood : Only while I was near to the shore and close by the Dun did I notice these. Even though, unusually, many of them lean over, I took them to be solution holes, but wondered if they had attracted the Dun's builders, and if any were man-made additions. (For scale-ish, that's my hat, bottom right).

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Dun Ringill submitted by SumDoood : The Dun can be seen far right. Perhaps this building was built from the Dun's stone. I noticed no markings on the exceptionally large stone dead centre.

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Dun Ringill submitted by SumDoood : This very robust wall, built perhaps from the broch's stone, and far wider than you'd expect for restricting farmed animals, curves inland from the Dun and back towards the sea.

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Dun Ringill submitted by SumDoood : In the entrance "tunnel".

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Dun Ringill submitted by Andy B : Entrance to Dun Ringill The entrance passageway to the dun is about 5 metres long. Copyright John Allan and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence

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Jethro Tull - Dun Ringill (official music video) by Andy B on Tuesday, 05 April 2016
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Dun Ringill by Jethro Tull, from the VHS/DVD "Slipstream", released in 1981 by Chrysalis Records.



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Re: Dun Ringill by Anonymous on Monday, 02 July 2007
May the Spirit of Dun Rigill eternally bless the people,
With delicate endurance for the masters at play.
We reach into distance with hats off we dance,
As the words meet the feelings, and the soul leads the way.
Balanced on the brink of your passages sang,
Brilliant light screaming in the darkness of day.
Wonder and awe, honor, respect, and wind,
Dun Ringill for which I am part of within.

Thank you Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)
STORMWATCH!
Robert M. MacKinnon
also known as: Bahama Kin
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Re: Dun Ringill by gammacee on Saturday, 03 June 2006
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Remains of a Dun on an isolated clifftop site. The entrance and up to about 2 metres of wall are visible from the landward side. There is a small car park at Kilmarie and a pleasant walk through woodland and along the coast (about 1/2 mile) to get to the site.
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Re: Dun Ringill by Andy B on Thursday, 10 May 2001
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Dun Ringill

Clear light on a slick palm
as I mis-deal the day
Slip the night from a shaved pack
make a marked card play
Call twilight hours down
from a heaven home
high above the highest bidder
for the good Lord's throne

In the wee hours I'll meet you
down by Dun Ringill -
watch the old gods play
by Dun Ringill

We'll wait in stone circles
'til the force comes though-
lines join in faint discord
and the Stormwatch brews
a concert of Kings
as the white sea snaps
at the heels of a soft prayer
whispered

In the wee hours I'll meet you
down by Dun Ringill-
take you quickly
by Dun Ringill

Ian Anderson (of the band Jethro Tull)
From the album "Stormwatch"
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