Monument record MHG34803 - Canna, Gualann Sgorr An Duine

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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
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NG20SW 44 2350 0498 and 2351 0505

Extends onto map sheet NG20NW.

A series of orthostatic walls can be seen dropping down the slope at the rear of a terrrace above the sea cliffs of Sgorr an Duine. Traces of other walls are visible in the gullies to either side of the knoll to the N, Gualann Sgorr an Duine, and on the crest of the ridge to the W. Some of the walls are made up of rows of contiguous boulders, but others are more fragmentary, with only occasional stones protruding through the peat. Typically they link crags and outcrops along their courses. Amongst the southernmost walls of the field-system, there is a scatter of four huts, one structure and one mound, which are presumably outlying elements of the group NG20SW 43. All but one of the huts lie beside or on the line of walls and are probably later in date.
The mound (NG 2351 0505) is set on a low knoll and is 4.7m in diameter; it may be the remains of a collapsed turf-built hut. The huts are all now reduced to their boulder wall footings and range in internal size from 1.8m by 1.6m to 4.3m by 3.2m. What may be a pen is attached to the E side of the smallest hut. The final structure is situated on the N side of the southernmost wall and has been heavily disturbed, surviving only as an arc of boulders measuring at least 2.5m in length.
(Canna 282-7, 985).
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS, ARG), 6 June 1994.