GLADMAN
From the A837. Rush hour... no need for surveillance cameras when you’ve Suilven on the scene.
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Reverse view of the exquisite landscape context looking from Meall na Suiramach. The dun sits left foreground of Loch Leum na Luirginn, diagonally above the modern cemetery. The wondrous Cleat stands aloof beyond its own loch.
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Two forts for the price of one... although for me Dun Beag is by far the finer. Looking across Camas Malag from the excellent coastal track to Dun Kearstach
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I bet the former inhabitants of Dun Kearstach felt EPIC!
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The little fort would’ve probably been rather ‘intimate’ back in the day.
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Sgurr Alasdair and the Black Cuillin rise across Loch Slapin.
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Beinn na Caillich is far right, seen across the northern defences.
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Still quite bit of stonework in situ.... on the dun, too :-)
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Looking across the interior to the, frankly, magnificent skyline. Blà Bheinn and cohorts are centre right, Sgurr Alasdair, summit peak of the peerless Black Cuillin, left skyline.
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Guess it’s the most logical place to build a fort, to be fair. Pretty spectacular, too.
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You can see why they’re called The Red Cuillin…. This could’ve been a superb site if the locals had let it be. But guess it’s been recycled to continue to serve the community.
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The spectacular landscape context of Dun Beag (far right, to right of Dun Mor). Loch Leum Na Luirginn, with its own small dun, is the background lake. Cleat is the wondrous viewpoint.
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A private garden cuts across the cairn...
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Not exactly the easiest of monuments to achieve a close up view of.
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You know.... sometimes you just can’t see the chambered cairn for the gorse (centre)
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From the minor road to Cuidrach. Once one knows where to look, simples.
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Although the ground was churned to buggery by cattle this was a great little site to hang out at for a while in the evening sun.
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Loch Leum Na Luirginn and its fragmentary dun from Cleat, perhaps the most exciting mini-mountain I’ve ever had the pleasure to ascend.
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Aerial view of the strategic positioning of Dun Beag and big neighbour Dun Mor (left hand of the narrowest part of Loch Slapin) looking across Loch na Sguabaidh from the wondrous Glas-Bheinn Mhor
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Approaching from completely the wrong direction, to be fair.
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The modern wall is a great pity. However echoes of what went before... the foundations, if you will... still remain.
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If you have any sense.... I didn’t.... don’t try to come here along the ‘shoreline’ direct from Dun Beag. Listen to Les.
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Dun Mor is that-a-way.... however I would strongly, strongly recommend you listen to Les and not decide to take that literally... as I did.
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Just big enough for a small family group, this. Perfect.
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Dun Beag is the penultimate bit of the sloping, grassy ridge... seen to the SE across Loch Slapin. Although dead on my feet I just had to get there. Blà Bheinn, Sgurr nan Each and Garbh-behinn form the magnificent skyline
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