<< Text Pages >> An Dun, Strath Canaird - Stone Fort or Dun in Scotland in Highlands
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Multi-periodSite Name: An Dun, Strath CanairdCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 7.309 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Highlands Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Map Ref: NC16530196
Latitude: 57.968965N Longitude: 5.103483W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Stone Fort or Dun in Highlands. An Dun, 300 yds SE of the River Kanaird and 700 yds due E of Drienach, occupies the flat-topped summit of a rocky knoll lying in the angle formed by the confluence of two burns. The knoll is precipitous or steeply inclined and the only easy approach to the dun is from the S where a gap in the debris probably represents the site of the entrance.
Owing to the wasted condition of the remains, no useful plan can be made without excavation. Superficial indications, however, suggest that the structure was shaped like a squat letter D with rounded corners, the W side forming the upright stroke, and that it measured about 34' E-W by 32' N-S within a wall some 14' thick. At the NW corner a short segment of the outer face of the wall is visible, a few courses high, behind which two slabs, embedded in the soil, may indicate the presence of a chamber.
Another stretch of the same face, 10' long, can be seen on the straight W side, rising with a batter of 1'6" to a height of 6'6"; its top is approximately level with the present ground surface in the interior. It is built of large blocks of local freestone levelled and jointed with pinnings. Elsewhere the walling has either disappeared over the precipices or lies in a heap of debris on the upper slopes of the knoll. Natural erosion has no doubt been accelerated by stone-robbing to build a late cottage and a dyke at the foot of the approach on the S. It is probable, however, that the foundations and floor are still intact.
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