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Berneray, Dun Briste
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2481
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2481 (2481)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Barra
- National Grid reference
- NL 5485 8057
- Latitude
- 56.78829
- Longitude
- -7.65487
- Altitude
- 105 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
- 0.12 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
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1915); Other (1965); Other (1992); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE21378
- National record
- record NL 58 SW 3; monument 21378
- Wikidata
- Q31119946
Sources
References
- Branigan and Foster, K and P (2000) From Barra to Berneray: archaeological survey and excavation in the southern isles of the Outer Hebrides, Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides volume 5. University of Sheffield: Sheffield
- Branigan and Foster, K and P (2002) Barra and the Bishop's Isles: living on the margin. Tempus: Stroud
- Foster, P (1992) 'Berneray (Barra parish): survey'. Disc Exc Scot 1992, 88
- 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