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MHG5611 - Fort - Dun Teadh, Canna

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NG20NW 8 2090 0535.

(NG 2090 0535) Probable promontory fort - a heavy wall, broken by an entrance and possibly with an external ditch, runs across the neck of a promontory.
The neighbouring name 'Dun Teadh' is said to apply to a rock visible at high water. (Visible on RAF air photograph CPE/Scot/UK 274: 3480; flown 22 August 1947)
Name Book 1877.

A fort formed by an almost straight wall cutting across the neck of a broad cliff-girt promontory. The wall, 43.0m long, varies in thickness between 2.3m and 3.5m with a fairly straight outer face and a more irregular inner face, both marked by similar sized blocks on edge standing to a maximum height of 1.0m. The position of the entrance is uncertain through it could have been at the W end where the wall has crumbled over the cliff. The interior of the fort is featureless. Immediately outside the wall near the centre are traces of a rectangular bothy of a later period measuring c. 4.0m x 2.0m, and 30m S of this are three small stony mounds, apparently clearance heaps.
The name Dun Teadh probably applies to an inaccessible natural stack at NG 208 053, immediately W of the fort.
Visited by OS (A A) 1 June 1972.

This fort is situated on a small promontory immediately east of that named Dun Teadh by the OS on 1:10,000 map.
(Unattributed and undated) information in NMRS.

The monument consists of a prehistoric fort located on a coastal promontory on the NW coast of Canna. It has been formed by an almost straight wall cutting across the neck of a broad cliff-girt coastal promontory. The wall is 43m long and varies in thickness between 2.3m and 3.5m. It has a fairly straight outer face and a more irregular inner face, both marked by similar sized blocks on edge standing to a maximum height of 1m. There are traces of a probable entrance to the fort at roughly the centre point of the wall. The interior of the fort is featureless. There are faint traces of a possible infilled ditch outside the wall. Immediately outside the wall, close to the location of the possible entrance and built over the remains of the possible ditch, are traces of a rectangular building of a later period. This structure measures about 4m by 2m.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated February 1996.

This site was included in the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland online database. See link below for site entry. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NG 2089 0535 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG20NW
Civil Parish	SMALL ISLES
Geographical Area	LOCHABER

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