Heavy vegetation hadn’t played a part in any of the day’s visits to prehistoric sites, Dun Ach’ Na H-Atha made up for all of them.
From the farm walk back towards the main road until the farm track widens, this appears to be an old quarry used for keeping machinery. Head north towards the fence and follow carefully, on the west side, until the vegetation widens. When you reach here be careful not to trip over hidden stonework like I did – it does mean that the dun has been reached. However, this isn’t a very easy walk, during my visit several bulls watched my every move from the field to the east, and a couple of feet to the west it is a sheer drop to the bottom. To make matters worse stones from a fallen dyke are trip hazards.
After picking myself up and I tramped a few bits of vegetation down to reveal a few stones. Probably the best time to visit would be during the winter months. The link from Trove shows some decent black and white photographs of walling.
The dun would have been oval shaped being 15m by 13m with the wall being 1.1m at its highest point.
The OS have a remnants of a cairn situated nearby but I didn’t find anything, once again a winter visit might reveal what the ferns were hiding.
Visited 01/08/2025.