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Berneray, Barra Head Lighthouse
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2482
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2482 (2482)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Barra
- National Grid reference
- NL 5485 8023
- Latitude
- 56.78525
- Longitude
- -7.65441
- Altitude
- 190 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1865); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Earthwork Survey (1887); Other (1890); Earthwork Survey (1915); Other (1934); Other (1965); Other (1988); Other (1992); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 927
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE21379
- National record
- record NL 58 SW 4; monument 21379
- Wikidata
- Q31120052
Sources
References
- Anderson, J (1893) 'Notice of Dun Stron, Bernera, Barra Head, with plans'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 27 (1892-3), 341-6
- 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. Sheffield University: Sheffield
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 179-80)
- Foster, P (1992) 'Berneray (Barra parish): survey'. Disc Exc Scot 1992, 88
- MacKie, E W (2007) The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC-AD 500: architecture and material culture, the Northern and Southern Mainland and the Western Islands, BAR British series 444(II), 444(1), 2 V. British Archaeological Reports: Oxford
- 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
- Thomas, F W L (1890) 'On the duns of the Outer Hebrides'. Archaeol Scot 5.3 (1890), 365-415