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Mingulay, Dun Mhiughlaigh
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2480
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2480 (2480)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Barra
- National Grid reference
- NL 5477 8232
- Latitude
- 56.80390
- Longitude
- -7.65839
- Altitude
- 145 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 10.43 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1915); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Earthwork Survey (1973); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE21376
- National record
- record NL 58 SW 1; monument 21376
- Wikidata
- Q31119945
Sources
References
- Branigan and Foster, K and P (2002) Barra and the Bishop's Isles: living on the margin. Tempus: Stroud
- 23, 86
- RCAHMS (1928) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Ninth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles. HMSO: Edinburgh