![]() The outcrop then rises almost vertically for about 2m before a grassy area (P) provides a sloping pathway upwards to the E. ![]() There are signs of a possible causeway between the shore and the SW corner of the outcrop on which the Dun is built. The site was surveyed at 1:50 in order to show the detail of the remains, which are now very fragmentary and difficult to interpret. ![]() Clashnessie Dun is incorrectly marked on both the 1st and 2nd edition of the OS 6 inch map where it is sited on a small peninsula half a mile NNE. Home’s map of 1774 marks Clashnessie Dun and Clachtoll Broch but none of the others. Roy marks none of the other promontory duns or brochs in Assynt. The earliest documentary reference to Clashnessie Dun is Roy’s map of Assynt (c 1750) which shows it as inhabited. When gales blow from the north however, the outcrop is effectively cut off from the shore and surrounded by crashing waves rising over the tops of the clefts, through the blowholes and over the causeway. On the SE landward side a stretch of beach, just above high water level links it to the mainland. An dun theine series#To the NE and the SW the outcrop falls away less steeply in a series of steps. A narrow neck of rock (C5) links the outcrop to the other side of cleft C1 and immediately to the north of it a section of the cliff wall of the outcrop has fallen away leaving a narrow embayment (C5). To both N and S of the outcrop are narrow vertical clefts down to the sea (C1 & C2) and there are two blowholes running from C1 up through the outcrop at C3 & C4. Three metres outside the wall in the SW are the scant remains of an outwork protecting the approach.Ĭlashnessie Dun is situated on an almost detached outcrop of rock some 10m above the sea. Traces of the outer face give overall measurements of 13.0m NE-SW by about 11.0m NW-SE. It survives as a level turf- grown area with the rubble wall core showing occasionally through the turf and in two or three erosion cavities. NC 0563 3157: Known locally as "An Dun", this oval dun is reduced to its foundation. Information contained in letter from T C Welsh 4 July 1971. (See NC03SE 1 for erroneous Name Book siting.) ![]() The area available for building is no greater than 10m by 7m and landslip on the N side has eroded part of that wall. Several courses of the 2m to 3m thick wall remain, enclosing a level area 6m by 3m. An oval dun, indicated on the current 1" by an unidentified 'o' (at NC 0566 3157). On either side the rock is cut off by a deep chasm. The entrance has been at the landward end. The entrance is in the SW.Īn Dun, Clashnessie: On a prominent flat-topped rock which rises abruptly to a height of some 30' above the shelf that fringes the shore, are the remains of an irregular elliptical structure following to some extent the outline of the rock, and measuring overall 36' x 26'. It is formed by a narrow ruinous wall which borders the rock to enclose an area measuring about 35' by 25'. A small promontory dun occupies an almost completely isolated pillar of rock on the shore. ![]()
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