Eigg, Loch Nam Ban Mora (original) (raw)
Dun (Prehistoric)
Digital Images
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Dun
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
1972
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Eigg, Loch nam Ban Mora, Dun. View of dun.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2001
© Crown Copyright: HES
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Archaeological map of Eigg, produced for the RCAHMS Broadsheet Eigg: the archaeology of a Hebridean landscape
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2003
© Crown Copyright:HES/Ordnance Survey
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Eigg, Loch Nam Ban Mora, NM48NE 15, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
c. 1958
© Crown Copyright: HES (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Collection)
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Eigg, Loch Nam Ban Mora, NM48NE/SE 28, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 2, Verso
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
c. 1958
© Crown Copyright: HES. (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division).
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Eigg. View of Loch nam Ban Mora with Eilean Chathastail in the background.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2001
© Crown Copyright: HES
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General oblique aerial view looking across the remains of the dun towards An Sgurr fort, taken from the NW.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
10/4/2003
© Crown Copyright: HES
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Eigg, Loch nam Ban Mora, Dun. View from NE.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/2001
© Crown Copyright: HES
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Eigg, Loch Nam Ban Mora, NM48NE 15, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
c. 1958
© Crown Copyright: HES (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Collection)
SC 1524993
Eigg, Loch nam Ban Mora, Dun. View from NW.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2001
© Crown Copyright: HES
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Eigg, Loch nam Ban Mora, Dun. View from NE.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/2001
© Crown Copyright: HES
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Eigg, Loch nam Ban Mora, Dun. View from NE.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/2001
© Crown Copyright: HES
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Eigg, Loch Nam Ban Mora, NM48NE 15, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
c. 1958
© Crown Copyright: HES (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Collection)
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Copy of colour slide showing dun on Loch nam Ban Mora with An Sgurr beyond. View from NW. Digital Image only.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2001
© Crown Copyright: HES
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Copy of colour slide showing dun on Loch nam Ban Mora, Isle of Eigg. Digital Image only.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2001
© Crown Copyright: HES
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Eigg, Loch Nam Ban Mora, NM48NE 15, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 1, Recto
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
c. 1958
© Crown Copyright: HES (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Collection)
SC 1544530
Eigg, Loch nam Ban Mora, Dun. View from NE.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/2001
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1556082
General oblique aerial view looking across the remains of the dun towards An Sgurr fort, taken from the NW.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
10/4/2003
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1865030
Oblique aerial view of the Sgurr of Eigg (An Sgurr), Isle of Eigg, looking NW.
Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
1994
© NOSAS (James S Bone Collection). Courtesy of HES
SC 883564
General oblique aerial view looking across the remains of the dun towards An Sgurr fort, taken from the NW.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
10/4/2003
© Crown Copyright: HES
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General oblique aerial view looking across the remains of the dun towards An Sgurr fort, taken from the NW.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
10/4/2003
© Crown Copyright: HES
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Eigg, Loch nam Ban Mora, Dun. View from NE.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/2001
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 390943
Violet Banks Photograph Album - The Small Isles - Page 4 - Loch Nam Ban Mora
Photographs by Violet Banks, professional photographer, Edinburgh, Scotland
c. 1920
© Courtesy of HES (Violet Banks Collection)
Collections
Administrative Areas
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
Activities
Note (1928)
NOTE.
In a contribution to the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries on March 11, 1878 (vol. xii., 577-597), mention is made of the following additional monuments:
(1) "Foundations of an island dwelling" in a small loch "lying high up on the shoulder of the Scuir of Eigg, known as Lochan na Mna Moire." The island is apparently that in Lochnam Ban Mora (O.S. 6-inch), the only loch here which has an island; it is inaccessible without a boat.
(2) A cairn, "some five or six hundred yards south from Kildonnan," which provided on excavation the articles in [RCAHMS 1928] No. 2 of list on p. lvi.
(3) A cairn "a few yards further south" with articles in No 3.
(4) Cairn, "Sithean or Sguman-nan-Cailleach," containing "two cists . . . made of flat stones set on edge and laid length wise." Stones of cairn removed to fill up a drain. Sithean na Cailleich on O.S. 6-inch lxxi
The O.S. map 6-inch lxxiii. notes a stone cist just north of Kildonnan Old Church ("Ruins of Chapel," cf. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., as above, pp. 584-6); the site of one stone cist found in 1861, and of another in 1864, in Galmisdale; the sites of two crosses (lxxi., lxxii.) and Tobar Challuim Chille ("Columba's Well") in Cleadale (lxxi).
RCAHMS 1928
Desk Based Assessment (7 June 1966)
NM48NE 15 4554 8523
See also NM48SE 15.
Loch na Mna Moire (= Loch nam Ban Mora) Eigg, contains a crannog, 50 yards from the shore, 35 x 15 ft.
It has the tradition of once being inhabited by abnormally big women.
Information from OS (BRS) 7 June 1966
Source: F O Blundell 1913; Donaldson 1923
Field Visit (4 May 1972)
This is not a crannog, but a small dun, typical of many of the poorly built island fortifications of the western isles. It occupies a natural rocky islet which has probably been artificially enlarged, and consists of a roughly D-shaped wall conforming to the edge of the islet, measuring overall 14.0m NNW-SSE by 8.5m transversely. The wall, best preserved on the straight landward side in the ENE where the outer face survives to a height of 1.2m, appears to have been about 1.3m thick, and is built of similar pitchstone block and in the same style as the fort wall on Sgurr of Eigg (NM48SE 6). It has mainly collapsed elsewhere and there is no trace of the entrance. The interior in uneven and heavily turfed and there is no definite sign of internal structure.
Visited by OS (ISS) 4 May 1972.
Field Visit (11 July 2001)
This dun is generally as described by OS 1972.
EIGG01 631
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, MTFR) 11 July 2001
See also RCAHMS 1928, 220 and Macpherson 1878, 578.
References
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