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<< Our Photo Pages >> Scalpsie Dun - Stone Fort or Dun in Scotland in Isle of Bute

Submitted by Skryabin on Wednesday, 12 July 2023  Page Views: 346

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Scalpsie Dun Alternative Name: Scalpsie Fort
Country: Scotland County: Isle of Bute Type: Stone Fort or Dun

Map Ref: NS05485866
Latitude: 55.782009N  Longitude: 5.103516W
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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Scalpsie Dun
Scalpsie Dun submitted by Skryabin : Site in Isle of Bute Scotland. Scalpsie Dun (or Fort). Lies fairly close to Scalpsie Cairn at NS55586. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A dun on the Isle of Bute, partly wrecked by the Local Defence Volunteers in the Second World War by building two machine-gun nests into its wall at the north and south. A stone shelter, built into the entrance on the west, may also date from this time. Excavation in 1959 uncovered a well built wall, finds included a comb fragment, a spindle whorl and wetstones. The fort dates to the early Iron Age.

It is situated on a rocky knoll and measures overall 31m by 23m.

Ref: NS55586 Trans. BNHS Vol.XV, Canmore
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Scalpsie Dun
Scalpsie Dun submitted by Creative Commons : The remnants of masonry on top of this low but prominent hummock are what survives of an early Iron Age dun. Creative Commons image by Anne Burgess via Geograph. Site in Isle of Bute Scotland (Vote or comment on this photo)

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NS0558 : Dun Scalpsie by Thomas Nugent
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NS0558 : Scalpsie Farm, Quien Hill and a bit of Geology by Anne Burgess
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Re: Scalpsie Dun by Andy B on Wednesday, 12 July 2023
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Dun Scalpsie on WoSAS

Dun Scalpsie, an Early Iron Age dun (information from F W Feachem, RCAHMS) is oval, measuring 97ft ENE-WSW, along its major axis. Though Hewison (1893) notes a 9ft wide wall on SE, there are now no remains of this, though tumbled rocks extend down the hillside for about 20ft. On the NW, at the entrance, the wall is 14ft 6ins thick, and what appears to be an inner wall 8ft thick and 1ft 6ins high runs parallel to it, 4ft away. This wall starts at a large mound of stones, 3ft high, 20ft x 4ft on the N, then runs W, joining the outer wall about 12ft beyond the entrance. It then continues for another 30ft before petering out. Hewison states that at the outer side of the wall, the doorway is 7ft wide, and 10ft wide on the inner. It is virtually obliterated by tumble and braken. He also notes 2 fosses on the SE slope, but no trace was found in 1959, though they could be obscured by tumble and bracken. A small section was cut in 1959. Artefacts found included a spindle whorl, comb fragment, whetstones, slag, animal teeth and bones. Two occupation levels were found, all the finds coming from the primary layer, except the bones, found in both layers.

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