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<< Our Photo Pages >> Dun Dige - Round Barrow(s) in Scotland in Highlands

Submitted by howar on Saturday, 14 August 2004  Page Views: 7049

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dun Dige
Country: Scotland County: Highlands Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Fort William
Map Ref: NN126720
Latitude: 56.801671N  Longitude: 5.070692W
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
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 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.
5 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
3

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Dun Dige
Dun Dige submitted by howar : Saucer barrow Coming from Fort William take the Glen Nevis road that leads to the Stiell Falls. A small road goes up the side of the Glen Nevis Restaurant and Bar (I suggest leaving your vehicle in the carpark). . The road takes a slight detour to the left behind said building and then straightens up. In the field in front of the white cottage, on your left still, is a small clump of trees that m... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Round Barrow (Saucer) in Highlands.
Coming from Fort William take the Glen Nevis road that leads to the Stiell Falls. A small road goes up the side of the Glen Nevis Restaurant and Bar (I suggest leaving your vehicle in the carpark).

The road takes a slight detour to the left behind said building and then straightens up. In the field in front of the white cottage, on your left still, is a small clump of trees that marks Dun Dige 'Dun of the Dyke'. If I had known it was this close to the main road I would have gone earlier in the week to perhaps better effect. Once you see the size of it you will be sure that it is a saucer barrow only much later re-used as a fortlet (which was burnt down some time after 1386 by a rival clan supposedly - in the NMRS there is a slight hesitancy about the Sorlie connection as an early stronghold of theirs). The tree at the back is quite large (though I may be speaking from an Orcadian viewpoint here) and the two at the front fairly so. These stand on a short flat mound but there appears to be a 'platform' in front of this. About the whole is a dark annular ring of damp-loving vegetation that delineates the moat. Climbing over the gate I found myself just over knee-deep in still dewy grass. At the back of the mound there is a small but not too shallow pan-shaped depression that I take to have been the entrance. Some smallish boulders can be seen around there, probably part of a wall. Probably needs to be seen when the vegatation isn't quite so lush if you are to make more out.
RCAHMS NMRS no. NN17SW 4
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Dun Dige
Dun Dige submitted by howar : Saucer barrow, ?entrance to fort Fort William NN126720 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dun Dige
Dun Dige submitted by howar : Saucer barrow ditch, moat of later fort.Fort William NN126720 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dun Dige
Dun Dige submitted by howar : Saucer barrow (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dun Dige
Dun Dige submitted by howar : Saucer barrow, usual view (Vote or comment on this photo)

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NN1272 : Glen Nevis by Richard Webb
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NN1272 : Glen Nevis Restaurant and Bar by Roger Cornfoot
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NN1272 : Glen Nevis: postbox &#8470; PH33 33 by Chris Downer
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NN1272 : Glen Nevis by Tim Heaton
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NN1271 : Access road, Glen Nevis by Jim Barton
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