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Mingulay, Geirum Mor
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2484
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2484 (2484)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Barra
- National Grid reference
- NL 5486 8120
- Latitude
- 56.79393
- Longitude
- -7.65555
- Altitude
- 48 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
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800 and undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1915); Other (1965); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE21377
- National record
- record NL 58 SW 6; monument 21381
- Wikidata
- Q31119955
Sources
References
- 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
- Wedderspoon, J (1915) 'The shell middens of the Outer Hebrides'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 7 (1915), 315-37 (not necessarily the full page references)