Dun Leccamore
Dun Leccamore is located on the highest cliff on the slate island of Luing , about 1.5 km north of Toberonochy. The Inner Hebrides island is located in Argyll and Bute in Scotland .
The well-preserved dun was partially excavated by A. MacNaughton between 1891 and 1893. It shows many characteristic features of its monument type. The wall, 4.1 to 4.9 m thick, encloses an oval area of around 19.8 × 12.8 m. In places the wall is still in eight layers of stone, up to a height of about three meters.
Amazingly, however, there are two approaches. In the southwest, in the 1.7 m wide entrance, you can see the post against which the door was hung and the 0.9 m deep hole into which the bolt was placed when the door was open. The southwest side door jamb is a slab of slate that bears 15 cup-and-ring markings up to 2.5 cm deep and 3.8 to 7.6 cm in diameter. The 1.5 m wide entrance in the northeast has no door jamb, but there is a so-called guard cells ( English guard-cell ) and a number of steps that lead to the wall. The dun is surrounded by an outer wall and two ditches carved out of the rock that served as a quarry .
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 Leccamore in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
Coordinates: 56 ° 14 ′ 10.2 " N , 5 ° 37 ′ 51.9" W.