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Latitude: 57.6125 / 57°36'44"N
Longitude: -7.5079 / 7°30'28"W
OS Eastings: 71226
OS Northings: 871420
OS Grid: NF712714
Mapcode National: GBR 78VL.XJY
Mapcode Global: WGV1X.NX0K
Entry Name: Dun Grogarry,dun
Scheduled Date: 4 December 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5185
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun
Location: North Uist
County: Na h-Eileanan Siar
Electoral Ward: Beinn na Foghla agus Uibhist a Tuath
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
The monument consists of a late prehistoric fortified settlement, or dun. The dun was formerly on an island in a shallow loch, but this has now been drained, leaving the dun as a mound on a slight knoll in marshy ground. A causeway is recorded, but has now been almost totally removed.
The dun is grass-covered, and 18m in diameter, with traces of what may be an inner wall-face enclosing a central court 8m in diameter. The area to be scheduled is circular, 40m in diameter, centred on the dun, to include the dun and an area around it in which evidence related to its construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a well-preserved example of a late prehistoric island fortification, with its damp location holding out the possibility of good preservation of organic deposits with information, accessible to excavation, about contemporary domestic life and agricultural practices.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NF 77 SW 10.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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