English Dictionary

dun

/dʌn/

noun

An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.

The ruins of the dun stood on the hilltop, overlooking the sea.

意味（1）

An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.

Pampedun, or Pandon, was probably a place of residence from the earliest times; its sheltered situation for boats, and proximity to the ancient way over the river, protected perhaps by a dun or camp, on the height above … possibly gave origin to the ancient name of the place, Pampedun, from the British pant, a hollow, and dun, a fort or camp, Pant-y-dun.

意味（2）

(archeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.

Smaller than the broch was the dun, another type of stone-built 'roundhouse'.