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Latitude: 56.0489 / 56°2'56"N
Longitude: -6.2166 / 6°12'59"W
OS Eastings: 137533
OS Northings: 692025
OS Grid: NR375920
Mapcode National: GBR CD1Q.MB8
Mapcode Global: WGYFP.G7Y5
Entry Name: Dunan nan Con,dun,hut circles,enclosures & field system
Scheduled Date: 4 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5074
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun; Secular: house
Location: Colonsay and Oronsay
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Kintyre and the Islands
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The scheduled area comprises a dun, a group of hut circles, four small enclosures, a field system, a linear stone-revetted bank, a ruined rectangular building, a patch of rig-and-furrow cultivation, a section of abandoned roadway and several shieling-like structures, enclosed within an area 380m E-W by 420m N-S, as shown in red on the accompanying plan.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The site is of national importance for the evidence that it provides, and has the potential to provide, for land use and settlement in the Bronze Age and Iron Age and in later periods.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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