An Dunan
Fort (Period Unassigned)
Site Name An Dunan
Classification Fort (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Alltshellach
Canmore ID 23550
Site Number NN05NE 7
NGR NN 0580 5995
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23550
- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmallie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NN05NE 7 0580 5995.
NN 0580 5995. On a narrow peninsula immediately east of North Ballachulish, are the remains of a promontory fort in which a whetstone, an iron fragment and crucible fragments were found before 1940. They were donated to the NMAS by A Paton 1969-70.
Cup-marks are reported from An Dunan (See NN05NE 5).
National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) 1970.
There is no trace of fortification on this promontory, but local tradition of a fort here is strong and Mr Paton (A Paton, 28 Clunes Avenue, Fort William) saw traces of what may have been rubble walling before 1940. It was he who found the crucible fragments etc when he dug a small exploratory trench at NN 0582 5993.
Visited by OS (AA) 10 September 1974.
