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Rum, Shellesder
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2695
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2695 (2695)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Small Isles
- National Grid reference
- NG 3270 0205
- Latitude
- 57.03190
- Longitude
- -6.40727
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.31 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Other (1983); Other (1996); Earthwork Survey (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6426
- HER
- Highland HER MHG5594
- National record
- record NG 30 SW 1; monument 10995
- Wikidata
- Q31099014
Sources
References
- David, G C (1967) 'Rhum; Sgor Reidh, Harris Beach, Glen Shellesder, Guirdil, Loch Scresort, Samhnan Insir'. Disc Exc Scot (1967), 28