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Dun Dige
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Dun Dige
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Glen Nevis House
Canmore ID 23725
Site Number NN17SW 4
NGR NN 1256 7197
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23725
- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmallie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NN17SW 4 1256 7197
(NN 1256 7197) Dun Dige (NR)
OS 6" map (1904)
Dun Dige -In the nearby flat, close south of Glen Nevis House, is a circular flat-topped mound, apparently of earth, 6' high and 80' in diameter, without rampart or parapet, surrounded by a shallow ditch 24' wide, partly wet, with a low mound outside it. "It is possibly medieval and is believed to have been an earlier home of the MacSorlie chiefs, an extinct branch of Clan Cameron." Dige is the Gaelic form of dyke, in the English sense of either ditch or wall.
D Christison 1889; D B MacCulloch 1938
Dun Dige, as described above, is built with earth with an admixture of stones. The outer bank which is extant on the NE side only, is 2.5 - 3.5m wide and 0.4m high.
Visited by OS (ASP) 14 July 1961
Correctly described by Christison and Phillips, this earthwork possibly incorporates a slight natural rise. Its situation, in what has been a marshy flat, and its appearance, suggest that it may be a 'saucer-type' cairn with Wessex affinities.
Visited by OS (AA) 18 May 1970 .
Archaeological Evaluation (November 2012)
NN 1253 7181 An evaluation was undertaken, in November 2012, of land at Glen Nevis Caravan Park. The area was considered sensitive due to its proximity to Dun Dige. A test pit indicated that the site, which is on a flood plain, stands on peat deposits >1.9m in depth. The 0.5m deep evaluation trenches recorded several land drains and a possible area of hand cultivation.
Archive: HAS. Report: Highland HER
Funder: Glen Nevis Holidays
Lynne McKeggie and Pete Higgins, Highland Archaeology Services and Archaeology North Ltd, 2013
(Source: DES)
