From the roadside, Dun Telve presents a curious ‘cooling-tower’ profile, which is what distinguishes the structure of brochs. Apart from Mousa Broch, which is on Shetland, I believe it is the best-preserved of its kind. It rises to over 30 feet (10 metres) high, and you can see that the stones used to build it have been carefully selected and dressed to a specific shape and size. Some are strikingly patterned, and some are just plain huge, but all have been placed by skilled human hands to form a perfectly tapering cylinder. It’s just incredible.
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Good writing… and Glenelg’s duns helped fire up the archaeologist in me when I visited them with my late Dad as a ten year old back in 1966. Time I returned.
Need to go back myself, quite a few sites around there not visited........................
I’ve still to upload pix of some coastal sites in the area that I took from on board the paddle steamer Waverley two years ago - Armadale to Kyle and Loch Hourn. Seeing stuff from the sea aboard her totally recommended. Was snapping some N. Wales sites from her again a few months back.