Dun Chealamy

Nearest town:
Thurso (49km ENE)
OS reference:
NC6911843919
OS sheet:
10
Latitude:
58° 21' 51.85 N
Longitude:
4° 14' 14.95 W
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Image of Dun Chealamy (Broch) by LesHamilton

The view from the roadside – Dun Chealamy atop its steep mound.

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Image of Dun Chealamy (Broch) by LesHamilton

This is a stitched panorama of six photographs, across Dun Chealamy.

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Image of Dun Chealamy (Broch) by LesHamilton

Just this short stretch on the periphery of the broch still reveals walling courses.

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Image of Dun Chealamy (Broch) by LesHamilton

This is the only recognisable stretch of the inner wall exhibiting facing stonework.

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Image of Dun Chealamy (Broch) by LesHamilton

This open section of mural gallery is the only major feature remaining at Dun Chealamy.

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Image of Dun Chealamy (Broch) by LesHamilton

Looking down on Strathnaver from the vantage point of Dun Chealamy

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Dun Chealamy

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LesHamilton Jun 22, 2019

Visited: June 19, 2019

The remains of Dun Chealamy stand on the top of a  grassy mound which falls steeply around most of its perimeter. The broch is in near total ruin, Canmore stating that it “was badly damaged in a search of stones for building a bridge and a dwelling house” in the early 1900s. To add insult to injury, the stones of the broch have again been plundered to erect a cairn in front of it (an event not elsewhere reported as far as I can determine).

It’s so sad that even in this relatively remote spot there are people who show our national monuments no respect!

As for Dun Chealamy itself, there still remain short segments of both internal and external walling several courses deep, and there is an exposed section of a mural gallery which also reveals several courses of architecture. But that’s about it and the structure has been so badly ravaged that there is not the slightest trace of an entrance passage.

But the views from the broch down to Strathnaver are extensive, and in its day this broch would have been a formidable fastness.

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