Dun (fortress)
Dun is a toponym running in the Celtic languages, it means fortress and secondarily hill. It gave dunon in Gaulois, Latinized in dunum , dun in Gaélique and DIN in Welsh. One frequently meets it in the relative texts with the Celtic Mythologie, in particular to indicate the residence of gods or hero.
One finds it for example in Ireland (Dun Aengus), but also in France, in the name of many cities (Autun, Audun-the-Novel, Châteaudun, Don (Northern), Dun-the-Places, Issoudun, Liverdun, Loudun, Lugdunum in the Antiquité which gave Lyon, Meudon, Verdun).
It is now used as general term to indicate small bastions, enclaves or rotundas of stone in Scotland, as sub-group of the Oppidum S. has certain places they seem to be built on favourable Crag S or hillocks, in particular in the south of the Firth off Clyde and Firth off Forth.
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