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North Uist, Groatay, Dun Mhic Laitheann
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2673
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2673 (2673)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Uist
- National Grid reference
- NF 9778 7318
- Latitude
- 57.64694
- Longitude
- -7.06746
- Altitude
- 5 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800 and undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); 1st Identified Written Reference (1911); Other (1915); Other (1965); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5807
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE10439
- National record
- record NF 97 SE 1; monument 10439
- Wikidata
- Q31120075
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