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Multi-periodSite Name: Eilean BuidheCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.6 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Isle of Bute Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Map Ref: NS01867532
Latitude: 55.929999N Longitude: 5.173315W
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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Canmore site 40458
A vitrified dun situated at the south-west end of Eilean Buidhe, (“Little Yellow Island”), one of the Burnt Isles at the north tip of the Kyle of Bute, and 350m south of Caol Ruadh. Approximately circular in plan, the dun measures about 19.5m in diameter within a fallen wall some 6m in thickness and a maximum height of 1.5m on the east side. It was excavated by J H Maxwell in 1936 and, as the site is now heavily overgrown, this account is largely based upon his published report. Two stretches of inner facing-stones were discovered on the north and on the west, and investigation of the core of the wall revealed large quantities of vitrified material forming a band up to 1.5m thick. The entrance probably lay within the gap in the wall on the NNE. Excavations in the interior uncovered a layer of charcoal, which extended beneath the inner face of the wall, as well as areas of rough paving, but no traces of internal structures were identified. A small hollow or cistern 'about mid-way between the centre of the fort and the south point', first noted in 1822 (Trans Royal Soc of Edinburgh 1824), was emptied of water and cleared of silt, as it had been in 1822, but no relics were found.
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