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Eigg, Poll Duchaill

Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2524

Location

Atlas number
SC2524 (2524)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Highland
Historic county
Inverness-shire
Parish, community, or townland
Small Isles
National Grid reference
NM 4543 8816
Latitude
56.91466
Longitude
-6.18410
Altitude
110 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 1, NW 0
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
0.25 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
stone wall
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (South)

Landscape

Topographic position
coastal promontory
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and heather moorland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
curvilinear platforms
Investigations
Earthwork Survey (2001); Other (2004)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
11003
HER
Highland HER MHG33342
National record
record NM 48 NE 51; monument 202968
Wikidata
Q31097895

Sources