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Canna, Dun Teadh
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2687
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2687 (2687)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Small Isles
- National Grid reference
- NG 2090 0537
- Latitude
- 57.05465
- Longitude
- -6.60474
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.78 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Other (1994); Earthwork Survey (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5903
- HER
- Highland HER MHG5611
- National record
- record NG 20 NW 8; monument 10738
- Wikidata
- Q31098268
Sources