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North Uist, Caisteal Odair
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2669
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2669 (2669)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Uist
- National Grid reference
- NF 7317 7680
- Latitude
- 57.66208
- Longitude
- -7.48292
- Altitude
- 15 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 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876); 1st Identified Written Reference (1911); Other (1914); Other (1965); Other (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5248
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE10074
- National record
- record NF 77 NW 8; monument 10074
- Wikidata
- Q31120053
Sources
References
- Beveridge, E (1911) North Uist: its archaeology and topography, with notes upon the early history of the Outer Hebrides. Edinburgh
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 140-1)
- 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