Dun Neill Iron Age promontory dun, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, looking NW across Loch Bracadale to Macleod's Tables: Healabhal Bheag rear L.
Dun Neill Iron Age promontory dun, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, looking NW across Loch Bracadale to Macleod's Tables: Healabhal Bheag (L) = Macleod's Table South, Healabhal Mhor (R) = Macleod's Table North. An oval dun 24m x 12m ENE-WSW on the summit of a flat-topped rock almost completely surrounded by the sea at high tides. Most of the dun wall has disappeared but traces of the outer & inner wall faces survive at the landward end. The dun was entered via a sloping gap in the rock on the N side where one stone step of a stair remains in place. Outside the dun are the faint remains of a stone parapet built on the edge of the rocks: this is probably an outwork or enclosure to the dun, but some see it as an earlier promontory fort robbed to build the smaller dun. Loch Bracadale is a sea loch on the W coast of Skye, Dun Neill is on the W coast of a promontory running down to Harlosh Point.
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Location: Dun Neill Promontory Fort, Ardmore, Harlosh, Loch Bracadale, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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