Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old Photograph Skerinish Scotland
Old photograph of Skerinish, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. On the coast near Skerinish Quay are the remains of a small promontory dun. The dun lies on the top of a small rocky stack. An earth bank cuts off access from the landward side and there are traces of walling around the remainder of the platform. A possible rock cut entrance leads down to the shore on the North West side. Dun is a generic term for an ancient or medieval fort. It is mainly used in the British Isles to describe a kind of hill fort and also a kind of Atlantic roundhouse. The term comes from Irish dún or Scottish Gaelic dùn, meaning, fort, and is cognate with Old Welsh din, whence Welsh dinas, meaning, city, comes.
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