Dun Skudiburgh

Nearest town:
Uig (2km E)
OS reference:
NG37406472
OS sheet:
23
Latitude:
57° 35' 45.52 N
Longitude:
6° 23' 43.87 W
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Image of Dun Skudiburgh by LesHamilton

This is the view of Dun Skudiburgh you see as you pass Scuddaborg [sic] Farm while taking the path to the coast. The small dùn atop the remains of the fort is clearly visible.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
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Image of Dun Skudiburgh by LesHamilton

This composite of three photographs gives a good impression of the appearance of this dùn – very much like a small broch, in fact.

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Image of Dun Skudiburgh by GLADMAN

From the south the Stack of Skudiburgh can be seen to the left of the mighty crag. Subsiduary defences can be seen lower left of the site.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Dun Skudiburgh by GLADMAN

The lower entrance (bottom right of image) is covered by additional defences securing the crag below to the north.

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The fort rampart. Dun Liath is sited upon the extreme left of the far ridge... with the chambered cairn Carn Liath crowning the next toward the camera.

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The dun still incorporates quite a volume of stonework...

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Worth it for the views alone... but a fabulous defensive site.

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The fort’s interior features a collapsed dun, a proto-keep. Stunning coastal views, too.

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Dun Skudiburgh

LesHamilton
LesHamilton Jun 5, 2015

Visited: May 31, 2015

As Carl states, Dùn Skudiburgh is visible when you travel south down the A855 towards Uig, and a car parking area is handily located at NG385653 for a visit. Walk 200 metres south and take the track to Scuddaborg farm, continuing past the farm to the coast – a walk of 35 minutes or so. Don’t try to short-cut across the fields because you will become trapped in a maze of fences, bogs and water-filled ditches.

It’s a steep climb to the top of Dùn Skudiburgh, best eased by taking a rising, anticlockwise route round the hill, topping out on its largely featureless, almost level grassy summit. The only real interest, apart from the views, is the dun, as very little of the original, underlying fort remains.

Despite the tumbledown nature of the dùn, there still remain stretches of walling up to eight courses in height, and there is evidence of ground-level galleries in at least two places. And there are great views north to Dun Liath, and south to Idrigill Point.

Miscellaneous

Dun Skudiburgh
Stone Fort / Dun
C
CARL Aug 21, 2013

Viewed from the roadside.

From a distance I thought I could make out a single rampart?

Canmore states:
‘Dun Skudiburgh, a partly vitrified fort, overlaid by a dun, is generally as planned by the RCAHMS. There is an additional outwork on the W; it turns E on a change of slope, then S where it is overlaid by a more recent wall. There are remains of extra defence on the E where steep rock faces outside the main outwork have been joined by stretches of walling. There are traces of what may be a similar blocking wall on the W below the main fort wall, but this is confused by more recent walls in the same area. Lumps of vitrifaction were noted in the main wall of the fort in the W arc.
A medial stabilising wall is visible round the W and S sides of the dun, varying from c. 0.7m to c. 1.0m in from the outer wall face. The entrance is not evident, but was probably from the E, where there is a gap in the tumble’.
Visited by OS (R L) 8 September 1971.

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