DUN HIADER

NL964389. The fort stands on a high, sheer, rocky bluff overlooking the sea. It is small and oval with traces of a median wall face in two places which are probably the sides of a mural gallery. Dun Hiader may therefore be tentatively classed as a galleried dun rather than a broch proper. The fort has suffered severely in recent years from unskilled investigation.

Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1963, pp. 20–1

Mr and Mrs E R Cregeen

DUN HIADER

NL/94388. Miss MacFarlane, Ruaig Schoolhouse, found sherds of pottery at Dun Hiader, a coastal fort in the SW. of the island, with a massive wall displaying a well built median face (cf. Kildonan, near Campbeltown). One was similar to the leathery ware from Dun Vaul Beg; three fragments were of very coarse material, light brown or grey in colour, 7 to 8 mm. thick; one was of reddish-brown, badly fired ware, contained fibrous matter, and measured up to 15 mm. in thickness; the last was 2.5 mm. thick, of coarse, grey, hard material, fired to a light red.

Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1958, pp. 10–12.

Beveridge, E. (1903) ‘Tiree and Coll’. p. 80.