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Eigg, An Sgurr
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2527
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2527 (2527)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Small Isles
- National Grid reference
- NM 4612 8474
- Latitude
- 56.88439
- Longitude
- -6.16938
- Altitude
- 393 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 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 4.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1844); Other (1925); Other (1963); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Other (2001)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2373
- HER
- Highland HER MHG3976
- National record
- record NM 48 SE 6; monument 22190
- Wikidata
- Q31097936
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 124)
- Miller, H (1858) The Cruise of the Betsey, (W S Symonds ed). Edinburgh
- 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