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MHG5257 - Dun Connavern

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NG56SW 3 5085 6284.

(NG 5085 6284) Dun Connavern (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Dun Connavern, Culnaknock, occupies the whole summit of an oval, rocky knoll on a rough plateau which rises to a height of some 400' above sea level. On the E side the knoll rises barely 15' in height, but on the W it is rather higher and the rocks are steeper. The dun has been defended by a stone wall built on the edge of the hillock, and measures extenally some 79' from NW-SE and about 42' across. On the eastern flank a considerable length of the outer face of the wall remains standing about 3' in height; though quite broken down along the western flank, which is more rugged and irregular, its position is indicated at several places, and at the S end 3 large blocks are left in their original places.
The position of the entrance is doubtful, but a row of stones at the southern end may indicate the line of its western wall.
Along the highest part of the interior about 6 1/2' within the wall on the eastern flank, there is a bank of stones and earth simulating an inner defence, but as the space enclosed by the outer walls is so narrow, it is doubtful if this can have been a wall.
On the plateau below the rocks on the west there are a number of indefinite foundations of stone buildings.
RCAHMS 1928.

Dun Connavern, a fort, correctly described by RCAHMS. Poor condition. Visited by OS (A S P) 27 April 1961.

The site was visited by M Wildgoose in 2002 during a walkover survey in advance of a proposed Woodland Grant Scheme project although it lay just outside the scheme boundary. No additional observations were made. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NG 5085 6284 (80m by 80m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG56SW
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	KILMUIR

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