Qualla: Rubha an Dunain https://qualla.com/rubha-an-dunain en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/t/rubha-an-dunain-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Rubha an Dunain https://qualla.com/rubha-an-dunain Rubha an Dunain: Introduction https://qualla.com/rubha-an-dunain/ Photo credit A' chachaileith, Public domain. In 2000, a local archaeologist reached into the silt of a small inland loch on a peninsula south of the Cuillin and pulled out a piece of timber. The wood was a clinker-built faering plank - the side of a small Norse-style boat. Carbon dating placed it around AD 1100. Nine years later, a Historic Scotland survey of the same loch revealed something nobody had expected: stone-built quays, boat noosts cut into the shore, a system of sluices to maintain water level, and an artificial canal connecting the loch to the sea. The Vikings had built a hidden inland harbour on Rubha an Dunain, and used it for centuries.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/t/rubha-an-dunain-wp/gf5t-rubha-an-dunain-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Rubha an Dunain: A Highway into History https://qualla.com/rubha-an-dunain/ Photo credit John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0. Marine archaeologist Dr Colin Martin called the discovery 'a highway into history' and noted that no other site quite like it has been identified anywhere in Scotland. Loch na h-Airde is a small body of water near the western tip of the peninsula, separated from the sea by only a...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/t/rubha-an-dunain-wp/gf5t-rubha-an-dunain-a-highway-into-history.mp3 0:06 2 full Rubha an Dunain: Older Layers https://qualla.com/rubha-an-dunain/ Photo credit John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Viking harbour is only the most recent significant archaeology. The peninsula contains a Mesolithic rock shelter dating back perhaps eight or nine thousand years, used by the first known human inhabitants of Skye. A chambered cairn from the 2nd or 3rd millennium BC sits to th...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/t/rubha-an-dunain-wp/gf5t-rubha-an-dunain-older-layers.mp3 0:06 3 full Rubha an Dunain: The MacAskills https://qualla.com/rubha-an-dunain/ Photo credit John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0. After the Vikings the peninsula passed into the hands of Clan MacAskill, a sept of Clan MacLeod. They were Coast Watchers and bodyguards to the MacLeod chiefs at Dunvegan - hereditary defenders of the western seaboard, well placed to spot trouble approaching from the Atlantic. By...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/t/rubha-an-dunain-wp/gf5t-rubha-an-dunain-the-macaskills.mp3 0:06 4 full Rubha an Dunain: Walking to the Edge https://qualla.com/rubha-an-dunain/ Photo credit Tony Teperek, CC BY-SA 2.0. There is no road. To reach Rubha an Dunain you walk - about five miles each way from the end of the road at Glen Brittle, along a rough track that follows the coast around the southern flank of the Cuillin. The path crosses bog, scrambles over rocky shoulders, and skirts the foot...

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