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Dun Abhuinn Bhaile Mheadhonaich
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2010
Dun Abhuinn Bhaile Mheadhonaich submitted by Andy B on 14th Apr 2010. The remains of the dun above Loch Caroy. Only the foundation course is visible on the outside, while the inside, seen here, is filled with grassed over tumble.
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Dun Flashader
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2010
Dun Flashader submitted by Andy B on 14th Apr 2010. The outer wall is tumbled but its course is clear around the edge of an 8m high crag, some 60m above Loch Greshornish.
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Drumuie Standing Stone
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2010
Drumuie Standing Stone submitted by Andy B on 14th Apr 2010. A singleton stone close to the main Portree to Uig road.
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Dun Garsin
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2010
Dun Garsin submitted by Andy B on 14th Apr 2010. A basalt knoll forming a good defensive site for a fort above Glen Bracadale.
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Dun Cnoc a'Sga
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2010
Dun Cnoc a'Sga submitted by Andy B on 14th Apr 2010. Cnoc a'Sga is a flat topped hill rising to a height of 80m. At the south western end of the summit plateau are the scanty remains of a dun, largely grassed over. A few of the outer foundation stones remain in position and the outline of the fort is marked only by an irregular ring of dislodged blocks. At the left end in this picture can be seen a circular cairn about 7m in diameter and 1m high surmounted by a smaller modern cairn.
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Dun Gerashader
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2010
Dun Gerashader submitted by Andy B on 14th Apr 2010. Remains of a fort north of Portree
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Dun Santavaig
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2010
Dun Santavaig submitted by Creative Commons on 14th Apr 2010. A fort on the east shore of Loch Snizort Beag. Part of the remains of a defensive wall can be seen near the skyline. The stones on the slope were once part of the construction. A wonderful natural defensive position.
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Dun Feorlig
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2010
Dun Feorlig submitted by Andy B on 14th Apr 2010. The remains of a broch on the shore of Loch Caroy.
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Dun Liath (Bornesketaig)
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2010
Dun Liath (Bornesketaig) submitted by Andy B on 14th Apr 2010. An "out of the square" shot to show the remains of the fort of Dun Liath. The view beyond is across Loch Snizort to Waternish.
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Dun Suladale
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2010
Dun Suladale submitted by Creative Commons on 14th Apr 2010. Constructed in the Iron Age, a good portion of the wall of this hill fort survives. The stones here are more even in size than in many other Skye brochs.
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Carn Liath (Kensaleyre)
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2010
Carn Liath (Kensaleyre) submitted by Creative Commons on 14th Apr 2010. This Carn Liath is one of many features of that name throughout the Scottish highlands. It is a four metre high chambered cairn. There is no obvious entrance to it, but it is believed to contain at least one cist.
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Rubh' an Dunain Cairn
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2010
Rubh' an Dunain Cairn submitted by Creative Commons on 14th Apr 2010. Copyright P Leedell and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
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Dun Telve
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2010
Dun Telve submitted by Andy B on 14th Apr 2010. From the Gleann Beag road near Corrary.
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Vatten
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2010
Vatten submitted by Andy B on 13th Apr 2010. One of a group of chambered cairns at the foot of Glen Heysdal.
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Carn Liath (Skye)
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2010
Carn Liath (Skye) submitted by Andy B on 13th Apr 2010. A neolithic chambered burial cairn above the east shore of Loch Snizort. A couple of the chambers are discernible, but most of the stones have been tumbled, or plundered for dyke building.
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Uig.
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2010
Uig. submitted by Andy B on 13th Apr 2010. Standing Stone at Peinsoraig
Overlooking the village of Uig. Captain Fraser's Folly can be seen to the left of the stone, with Uig Free Church and Uig Hotel in centre of picture.
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Eyre Alignment
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2010
Eyre Alignment submitted by Creative Commons on 13th Apr 2010. Sornaichean Coir' Fhinn
A closer view of the stones
It is said that these stones were erected here by Fingal and his fellow hunters to suspend a pot in which whole deer were cooked over a fire to make venison stew.
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Dun Ardtreck
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2010
Dun Ardtreck submitted by Creative Commons on 13th Apr 2010. A view of Dun Ardtreck from the south showing its precarious position on the clifftop.
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Claigan
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2010
Claigan submitted by Andy B on 13th Apr 2010. Souterrain. The entrance to this is hard to find, and not at all encouraged by the farmer.
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Tungadal
Date Added: 17th Sep 2010
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2010
Tungadal submitted by Andy B on 13th Apr 2010. Tungadale Souterrain
The entrance to Tungadale Souterrain, a seven metre long underground passage constructed in the bronze age. This one is very remote and very tricky to locate on a steep hillside in a forest.
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