Dighty Valley - Archaeology Data Service

defensive position are possibly homesteads. The place name rendered
in English as " The chambers " is a possible pointer. Visited
with Messrs P. Maclellan, and W. O. Black.
NR/183540. East of Cladville and slightly cut by the Portnahaven-Kilchiarain
road is a roughly circular stone walled enclosure,
45 ft. in diameter, the wall being 3£ ft. wide, enclosing a
sub-rectangular foundation 20 ft. N-S. x 16 ft. E-W., surrounded by
a much heavier 6-7 ft. wide wall. Located with Captain Graham
Donald.
NR/402454. A steep sided headland, Barr an t-Seann Duine,
on the W. side of Lagavulin Bay, has its N., landward, end almost
insulated by two steep opposed gullies, each closed by at least two
lines of defensive walling. The dry peninsula thus formed is fully
occupied by a circular foundation 27-36 ft., across, within a 6£ ft.
wide wall entered from the S. On the greater headland, and facing
the first structure is a complex comprising a circular foundation
24-37 ft. across within a 1\ ft. wall, and on the NE., a semi-circular
annexed enclosure 20-23 ft. across within a 5-6 ft. wide wall, which
expands to 12 ft. in width where it closes with the wall of the circle.
The two walls contiguous and concentric continue towards the
North facing entrance, where the double walling, 20 ft. thick overall
acts as a defence along the approach from the E. gully. Further
traces of defensive walling run along the east edge of the headland.
To the W. of the double walled complex is a third circular foundation,
some 32 ft. in overall diameter obscured by a more recent stone
cairn. None of these structures suggests a tower. Visited with
Captain Donald.
Tallant (I.A.S.G. Gazeteer, (7) 53)
NR/449504. On a lower terrace at the W. end of the Dun, a
partly natural partly slab-built wall encloses a roughly rectangular
area 29 ft. across. Thirty yards W. of the crag foot, Mr H. E.
Newall located a mound 28 ft. E. - W. x 15 ft. N. - S. containing at
the E. a hut circle about 10 ft. across internally. On the W. an
entrance 2 ft. 9 ins. wide extends into a passage 14£ ft. long,
widening from 11 ft. inwards into a slightly wider cell separated
from the hut by a low slab-built wall. The dun itself, too heavily
wooded for accurate measurement is about 96 ft. E. - W. x 39 ft.
N. - S., and defended on three sides by a massively-constructed wall
8 ft. wide, the sheer smooth E. face being undefended, or but
slightly walled. There are traces of a small build in the NE.
corner, and of walling within near the centre. The entrance is near
the NW. end, in the N. wall. Visited with Captain Donald, Anne
Donald and Diana Leitch.
NR/336470. Mr John Neilson has located here a round
house foundation 34 - 35 ft. in diameter over a 6 ft. wide spread
wall of earth and gravel, with on SE. an incurved hollow and
narrow entrance covered internally by an oblique screen wall.
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