Dun Cruit
Dun Cruit on Lunga , an island of the now uninhabited Treshnish Isles of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute in Scotland , is a Promontory Fort on an inaccessible surf pillar ( English Stack ) on the west side of Lunga.
Dun Cruit means "Pictish fortress". Access was probably made by means of a temporary bridge over the narrow gap in the east.
Dun Cruit is a roughly D-shaped stack that is separated from the island by an approximately 6.0 m wide chasm. The sea side of the stack is more than 40 m high, but drops steeply from northwest to southeast. On the side facing the land, the cliffs reach heights of 15 m to 20 m. The south side is more sloping than the rest. In this sector there are traces of a rough stone wall on the edge of the cliff. The grass-covered embankment made of stone rubble is 1.5 m wide and no more than 0.6 m high. The date and purpose of the dun cannot be determined by observation, but it is now considered unlikely to be remnants of a fortification, as suggested by Erskine Beveridge (1851–1920).
See also
literature
- Anna Ritchie, Graham Ritchie: Scotland Archeology and Early History . Thames and Hudson Ltd., London 1981, ISBN 0-500-02100-7 .
Web links
- Entry on Dun Cruit in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 56 ° 29 ′ 29.7 " N , 6 ° 25 ′ 36" W.