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Latitude: 57.0492 / 57°2'57"N
Longitude: -6.6091 / 6°36'32"W
OS Eastings: 120588
OS Northings: 804792
OS Grid: NG205047
Mapcode National: GBR BB22.TSZ
Mapcode Global: WGX7J.G20T
Entry Name: Dun Channa,fort,Canna
Scheduled Date: 21 March 1994
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5954
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
Location: Small Isles
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Caol and Mallaig
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument consists of a fort on an isolated stack of rock off the W coast of Canna.
The stack has been utilised as a fort by building a drystone wall on the edge of the landward side, where access is possible. The fort measures 41m NW-SE by 33m NE-SW within a wall which is about 25m long. At the approximate centre of the wall is an entrance and the
wall is about 2m thick at this point, but increases to 3m at its SE side. In the interior two D-shaped structures are built against the fort wall and there are indications of other structures under the turf.
The area to be scheduled measures 60m SW-NE by 60m SE-NW, to include the fort, the access and an area around in which traces of activities associated with the construction and use of the fort may survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to contribute to a knowledge of prehistoric defensive architecture and domestic life.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NG 20 SW 1.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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