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Sanday, Sean Dun
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2690
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2690 (2690)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Small Isles
- National Grid reference
- NG 2811 0398
- Latitude
- 57.04651
- Longitude
- -6.48475
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1953); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Other (1994); Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5908
- HER
- Highland HER MHG44364
- National record
- record NG 20 SE 10; monument 10741
- Wikidata
- Q31098798
Sources