Monument record 634 - LOCH CNOC A' BUIDHE, MINGARY, SOUTH UIST

NF72NW 10 7483 2587.

(NF 7483 2587) The scanty remains of a dun, about 43ft in diameter, occupy almost the whole area of an islet, near the west side of Loch Cnoc a Bhuidhe, Mingary, South Uist. Within the dun are the remains of a rectangular building, probably of later date, 16ft N-S by 13ft E-W, within walls 5ft thick and rising, in 1914, to about 3ft. An S-shaped causeway, 80 yards long and 4-6ft broad, connects the island to a narrow promontory on the north shore.
RCAHMS 1928.

The dun is generally as described above. Only its outer perimeter can be traced with any accuracy, the remains of the later building within obscuring the remainder.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (W D J) 10 May 1965.

The islet is circular (c. 18m in diameter) and comprised of small portable stones that rise less than 2m above the loch surface. These stones reside on course-grained sediments and degraded stone. Softer sediments were observed further from the islet, around 1m from the islet’s margin and predominately along its eastern quadrant. The surface of the islet is covered in vegetation, but the digital elevation model derived from the photogrammetry survey shows a circular structure, which appears to be the dun noted during previous surveys (Canmore; Raven and Shelley 2013). Heavily abraded bits of Iron Age pottery were found within the sediment-rich margins, and a high quantity
of modern rubbish was also noted around the loch shore. The Iron Age pottery and apparent dun structure on the surface of the islet demonstrates Iron Age activity at the site.
Blankshein.S et al (2022).

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 112, No. 382 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

Stephanie Blankshein, Angela Gannon, Duncan Garrow, Fraser Sturt, 2022, UIST CRANNOG SURVEY (Monograph). SWE41375.