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Skye, Annait, Bay River
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2692
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2692 (2692)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Duirinish
- National Grid reference
- NG 2725 5272
- Latitude
- 57.48252
- Longitude
- -6.55237
- Altitude
- 60 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 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1773); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Earthwork Survey (1921); Other (1936); Other (1971); Other (1990)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 942
- HER
- Highland HER MHG44141
- National record
- record NG 25 SE 1; monument 10918
- Wikidata
- Q31098855
Sources
References
- MacCulloch, J A (1948) The misty Isle of Skye. Stirling (p 42-5)
- Pottle and Bennett, F A and C H (1936) Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 1773. Viking Press : New York (http://www.archive.org/details/boswellsjournalo011419mbp),
- 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
- RCAHMS (1993) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Waternish, Skye and Lochalsh District, Highland Region: an archaeological survey. Edinburgh
- Thomas, A C (1971) The early Christian archaeology of north Britain: the Hunter Marshall lectures delivered at the University of Glasgow in January and February 1968. London (p 45-6)