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Image of Lochan nan Dunan by LesHamilton

The steep hill that conceals the fort from the roadside. Note the boulder-stile that allows easy access to the site.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
Image of Lochan nan Dunan by LesHamilton

The eastern enclosure. All that remains is a low vegetated bank round its periphery.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
Image of Lochan nan Dunan by LesHamilton

This composite photograph shows the western enclosure and the 12 metre tall rock stack that separates it from the eastern enclosure.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
Image of Lochan nan Dunan by LesHamilton

The view from the western enclosure, looking northwest towards the flat topped Sron Vourlinn massif.

Image credit: Les Hamilton

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Lochan nan Dunan

Visited: April 29, 2018

About half a kilometre south of Flodigarry, on the A855, you pass Lochan nan Dunan, a small roadside lochan with a parking area beside it. Immediately on the right hand side of the road (if travelling north) is a heathery hillside rising steeply for about 15 metres. A stout barbed wire fence precludes immediate access opposite the parking area, but walking back down the road for 50 metres or so revals twin boulders arranged to form a stile.The fort of Lochan nan Dunan is revealed after making this short climb.

The fort comprises two enclosures, separated by a mighty rock stack twelve metres in height. There is little of real note to see although the grassy stumps of the enclosing wall of the eastern enclosure, little more than half a metre in height, can still be picked out. The western enclosure, located on a gentle slope, boasts an even less significant grass-grown wall.

The best part of the visit is the view it provides towards the mountainous backbone of the Trotternish peninsula. Particularly prominent is Sron Vourlinn, the gaunt flat topped hill to the northwest, and the Quiraing to the southwest.

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