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Canna, Dun Channa
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2688
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2688 (2688)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Small Isles
- National Grid reference
- NG 2058 0478
- Latitude
- 57.04917
- Longitude
- -6.60935
- 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 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1925); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5954
- HER
- Highland HER MHG5629
- National record
- record NG 20 SW 1; monument 10764
- Wikidata
- Q31098629
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 180)
- RCAHMS (1928) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Ninth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles. HMSO; Edinburgh