Monument record MHG34794 - Canna, Sgorr Nam Ban-naomha

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NG20SW 35 2286 0448, 2285 0447 and 2287 0450

Two rectangular enclosures and a low circular mound lie at the foot of a rocky crag above the steep sea cliffs that overlook the monastic enclosure (NG20SW 2) at Sgor nam Ban-Naomha. The largest of the two enclosures was probably built as a fold and is known locally as ?the fank of blood?, where cattle were bled to provide food for human consumption in the spring. The place-name ?Fang na Fala?, which translated literally means ?the fank of blood?, is described by Campbell as the wet place into which cattle were driven to be bled, and is plotted across a burn gully to the NE on the 1976 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map.
The enclosure (NG 2286 0448) is plotted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, 1881, sheet lix), and measures 17.4m from NNW to SSE by 8.3m transversely within a boulder and rubble wall 0.9m in thickness and 1.3m in height. An entrance 1.1m wide lies towards the NW end of the SW wall, and there are stone footings of a small pen within its NE corner.
The second enclosure (NG 2285 0447) lies about 12m to the SW and appears to have been built largely of turf. It measures 8m from NW to SE by 4m within a bank spread up to 2m in thickness and 0.3m in height.
The mound (NG 2287 0450) lies in a shallow gully to the NE and may be all that is now visible of a collapsed turf-built hut. It measures 5m in diameter and has been damaged by rabbit burrowing.
(Canna 318-20, 990).
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS, ARG), 6 June 1994.
J L Campbell 1984.