Dun Nosebridge

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Looking south west from Dun Nosebridge. View from, and including the rim of the Iron Age fort at Dun Nosebridge. - geograph.org.uk - 302529.jpg
Looking south west from Dun Nosebridge.

Dun Nosebridge is an Iron Age fort southeast of Bridgend, Islay, Scotland. [1] The fort is on the right bank of the River Laggan.

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The name's origin is probably a mixture of Scottish Gaelic and Old Norse: Dun in the former language means "fort" and knaus-borg in the latter means "fort on the crag". Another possibility is the Norse hnaus-bog meaning "turf fort". [2]

The site is a designated scheduled monument. [3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Historic Environment Scotland. "Dun Nosebridge, fort (Site no. NR36SE 10)" . Retrieved 26 October 2025.
  2. ↑ Newton (1995) p. 26
  3. ↑ Historic Environment Scotland. "Dun Nosebridge, fort (SM3936)" . Retrieved 26 October 2025.

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55°45′46″N6°11′31″W / 55.7628°N 6.1920°W / 55.7628; -6.1920

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