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Rum, Papadil
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2509
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2509 (2509)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Small Isles
- National Grid reference
- NM 3616 9189
- Latitude
- 56.94296
- Longitude
- -6.33967
- Altitude
- 20 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 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1983)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG4212
- National record
- record NM 39 SE 1; monument 21950
- Wikidata
- Q31097827
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1983) The archaeological sites and monuments of Rhum, Lochaber District, Highland Region, The archaeological sites and monuments of Scotland series no. 20. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland: Edinburgh