Dun in the hole at Duin
The Dun in the hole at Duin is a Dun on the Hebrides -Insel Taransay in Scotland . It has a bizarre shape and, in contrast to the mostly exclusively round or oval (rarely also D-shaped Castle Haven ) systems of this type, is trapezoidal or relatively square, with lengths of about 12.0 × 12.0 m. It is located on a small island in Loch an Duin. The dry stone walls are about three meters thick and enclose a rectangular, open space of only about 21 m². The approach to the island with the Dun (in Scottish Gaelic Dùn ) can be done via stepping stones .
The list of ground monuments of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) shows a total of 814 duns for Scotland . About a quarter (202) is concentrated in the Western Isles . The term is used in Scotland to describe various stone enclosures (Atlantic Roundhouses such as Dun Ban , Brochs or Wheelhouses ) that date from the 2nd half of the 1st millennium BC. Until the 2nd half of the 1st millennium AD were built and used. Duns or Brochs with the prefix Dun on islands are not uncommon in Scotland ( Dun an Sticir on North Uist).
On the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland there is a similar constellation under "Loch a Duin" (practically the same name), but with a fortified Crannóg in the lake.
literature
- Anna Ritchie, Graham Ritchie: Scotland. To Oxford Archaeological Guide . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-288002-0 , ( Oxford archaeological guides ).
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Coordinates: 57 ° 54 ′ 4.1 ″ N , 7 ° 1 ′ 45.6 ″ W.