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Vatersay, Biruaslum
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2483
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2483 (2483)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Barra
- National Grid reference
- NL 6107 9633
- Latitude
- 56.93377
- Longitude
- -7.57452
- Altitude
- 71 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 9.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- Other (1915); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE21396
- National record
- record NL 69 NW 4; monument 21396
- Wikidata
- Q31119947
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. Sheffield University: Sheffield
- 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