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Dun Ringill today

Scotland · Partial ruin

Dun Ringill

Dun Ringill is an Iron Age hill fort on the Strathaird peninsula of Skye, later modified in the Middle Ages and traditionally held as a seat of Clan MacKinnon. The stacked-stone dun sits on the west shore of Loch Slapin, surrounded by a ditch and the foundations of an enclosing wall, with remnants of a small farming township to the north. The site shows occupation and alteration from the early centuries CE through the 19th century.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons

Its prime

1360

Today

Partial ruin

As it stood in 1360

The shape it held in its prime.

A roughly broch-like stacked-stone tower about 16 m across and c.4 m high in its surviving fabric, set on a rocky shore above Loch Slapin; the outer wall is ringed by a ditch and a clearly visible landward-facing central doorway about 1.8 m high leading into the central court. Two small rectangular stone buildings sit within the interior. Low stone foundations enclose an adjacent yard, and earth-and-stone ramps descend each side to the water.

Step inside

10 places to explore in 1360.

The record describes 10 distinct spots at Dun Ringill — including 2 interiors: central court of the broch-like tower, two interior rectangular buildings. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.

Approach from the coastal plainLandward central doorwayCentral court of the broch-like towerTwo interior rectangular buildingsOuter ditch beside the curtain wallEnclosing perimeter wall and yardNorth ramp down to the waterSouth ramp to the shoreFarming township north of the dunView from the Loch Slapin shore

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