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North Uist, Loch Fada
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2672
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2672 (2672)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Uist
- National Grid reference
- NF 8796 7121
- Latitude
- 57.62256
- Longitude
- -7.22888
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1911); Other (1914); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE10352
- National record
- record NF 87 SE 19; monument 10352
- Wikidata
- Q31119975
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