Monument record 962 - DUN SCARIE, LOCH SCARIE, BALRANALD, NORTH UIST

NF77SW 8 7178 7055.

(NF 7178 7055) Dun Scarie (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Dun Scarie stands on an island near the west side of Loch Scarie, connected to the shore by a causeway. The main structure seems to have been rectangular, with rounded corners, but it has been extensively robbed.
A single fragment of pottery, some bones and shells, and hammerstones were the only finds.
E Beveridge 1911.

All that remains of Dun Scarie is a mutilated turf-covered mound, c 1.2m high, with, on its summit, the remains of a later building, obliterating most details of the dun.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
The causeway is now partly submerged.
Visited by OS (J T T) 16 June 1965.

The mounument known as Dun Scarie, island dun in Loch Scarie, North uist, comprises an island dun in Loch Scaridh on the W. side of North Uist. The area to be scheduled is a rectangle 92m from E-W by 44m transversely, to include the dun, causeway, associated structures, and an area around in which evidence relating to their construction and use may survive.
Historic Scotland Scheduling Document, 6.6.2005

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 190 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 97, No. 318 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.