Coll and Tiree

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The chronology of the Duns is more complicated, and, as regards the Hebrides, the only tenable conclusion appears to be that while they are prehistoric in origin, the period of their erection cannot be placed later than the ninth to the thirteenth century, some of them probably dating back even so far as the Christian era - or beyond it. The true Brochs (of Glenelg, Lewis, Caithness.