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Latitude: 56.1011 / 56°6'3"N
Longitude: -6.1573 / 6°9'26"W
OS Eastings: 141572
OS Northings: 697602
OS Grid: NR415976
Mapcode National: GBR CD5L.BHB
Mapcode Global: WGZGG.DX66
Entry Name: Dunan nan Nighean,dun,Colonsay
Scheduled Date: 22 August 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5226
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun
Location: Colonsay and Oronsay
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Kintyre and the Islands
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Dunan nan Nighean stands on a rocky knoll. It is a small drystone Iron Age fort with a more slightly built annex. The dun itself is D-shaped on plan, approximately 12m by 10m overall. The annex lies to the E, and is of similar dimensions. The entrance to the dun is on the E, and is well preserved, with three lintels over the passage.
The area to be scheduled includes the dun, entrance passage and annex, and a surrounding area extending up to the edge of the rock scarp on the NW, W and S, and 10m from the walls of the dun and annex on the NE, E and SE, an area measuring overall some 40m east-west by 20m north-south.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of the evidence that it provides, and has the potential to provide through excavation, for settlement, economy and defensive architecture in the Iron Age (c. 600 BC ' c. AD 400).
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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