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Latitude: 55.6494 / 55°38'57"N
Longitude: -5.4752 / 5°28'30"W
OS Eastings: 181440
OS Northings: 645022
OS Grid: NR814450
Mapcode National: GBR DFVS.BTX
Mapcode Global: WH0L7.V8YD
Entry Name: Sunadale,dun 275m NE of
Scheduled Date: 8 April 1975
Last Amended: 4 March 1993
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM3643
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun
Location: Saddell and Skipness
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Kintyre and the Islands
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument consists of a small dun on a pillar of rock in dense woodland. The dun is defined by traces of a wall, which survives in places up to 3m in thickness. The wall on the SW stands to a height of 3 courses and an entrance is visible. Access to the entrance is up a steep slope to the W of the dun. The entrance is about 1m wide at its outer end and has door checks about halfway along its length. The interior of the dun is about 6m SE-NW by 4.5m SW-NE and is featureless.
The area to be scheduled measures 40m in diameter, to include the dun, the rock pillar on which it stands and an area around in which traces of activies associated with the occupation of the dun may survive.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance for its potential contribution to an understanding of prehistoric defensive architecture. The dun will also contain important information on the domestic life and farming practices of those who built and lived within it.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS record the site as NR84NW 2.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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