General view.
SC 743231
Description General view.
Date c. 1898
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 743231
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AG 1736
Scope and Content Dunan Nighean, Tiree, Argyll & Bute The remains of Dunan Nighean, a small Iron Age dun or fort, stand on a rocky stack on the seashore near the village of Balephuil on the west coast of Tiree. The sides of the stack, which present a steeply sloping rockface to the shore, were photographed by the Victorian photographer, Erskine Beveridge, c.1898. This curious, long narrow natural opening in the rocks runs from the high-water mark some 200m from south to north, starting exactly at the north-east end of the fort. For part of its length it takes the form of a vertical fault in the rock strata running below a row of thatched and rubble-built cottages (left) on the ridge above. Dunan Nighean, which in Gaelic means 'the little fort of the girls', was a small defensive enclosure with a thick drystone wall. It was roughly oval in plan, and the interior has been extensively disturbed, probably in the course of robbing stone from the wall to build the cottages nearby. Like other duns on the island, it occupies a naturally defensive position. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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