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Skye, Dun Neill
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2691
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2691 (2691)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Duirinish
- National Grid reference
- NG 2814 4075
- Latitude
- 57.37581
- Longitude
- -6.52444
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Other (1915); Other (1971); Other (1976)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3885
- HER
- Highland HER MHG4848
- National record
- record NG 24 SE 5; monument 10861
- Wikidata
- Q31098827
Sources
References
- 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