Find Spot record MHG5609 - Dun Nam Berbh, Canna

Dun nam Berbh (NAT)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

Probably a wheelhouse reduced to its lowest courses. 'Wheel-house' pottery found here is in possession of the laird, J L Campbell, Canna House.
Private 6"map of T C Lethbridge 1953.

An unintelligible pattern of overgrown footings to a cluster of four or five buildings covering an area measuring about 16.0m in diameter.
One building appears to measure about 4.5m NE-SW by about 2.8m, whilst the others are possible oval or sub- circular. All are so denuded and overgrown however, that the plan of the complex is not discernible.
None of the structures can be identified as a wheelhouse.
Visited by OS (I S S) 27 May 1972.

The pottery, still in Mr. Campbell's possession, was found on the ground surface amongst the buildings when a fire burnt off the vegetation. It is coarse undecorated handmade ware of uncertain date. Pottery of this kind was being made well into the medieval period on Canna.
Visited by OS (A A) 2 June 1972.