Kilpatrick Dun

Kilpatrick Dun is situated on level ground on a northwesterly hill-slope. It can be reached via a short walk from a small car park. The site is not well understood. In the past it has been proposed that it was a Bronze Age burial cairn or the site of an early Christian monastery. However, it is now generally thought that the site was a fortified residence, or dun, of a type common across the western Scotland in the later Iron Age. A similar structure can be seen at the Torr a'Chaisteal dun 2+1/2 mi to the south. The circular dun measures 17 metres in diameter, within a wall more than 8 metres thick in places. The entrance, 1.2 metres wide, is from the south. There are four chambers visible…