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Eigg, Kildonnan
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2526
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2526 (2526)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Small Isles
- National Grid reference
- NM 4914 8476
- Latitude
- 56.88623
- Longitude
- -6.11991
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
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
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1878); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Other (1974); Earthwork Survey (2001); Other (2004)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11001
- HER
- Highland HER MHG44136
- National record
- record NM 48 SE 15; monument 22177
- Wikidata
- Q31097925
Sources
References
- MacPherson, N (1878) 'Notes on the antiquities from the Island of Eigg'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 12 (1876-8), 577-97
- Macdonald, A (1974) 'Two major early monasteries of Scottish Dalriata: Lismore and Eigg'. Scot Archaeol Forum 5,