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North Uist, Loch Caravat, Eilean Dubh Dun Scor
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2670
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2670 (2670)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Uist
- National Grid reference
- NF 8430 6202
- Latitude
- 57.53782
- Longitude
- -7.27795
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1911); Other (1915); Other (1965); Other (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5240
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE10259
- National record
- record NF 86 SW 19; monument 10259
- Wikidata
- Q31120068
Sources
References
- Beveridge, E (1911) North Uist: its archaeology and topography, with notes upon the early history of the Outer Hebrides. 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