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Skye, Rubh' An Dunain
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2697
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2697 (2697)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bracadale
- National Grid reference
- NG 3958 1597
- Latitude
- 57.16053
- Longitude
- -6.30871
- Altitude
- 17 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
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Other (1915); Other (1934); Other (1961); Other (1963); Other (1986); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 926
- HER
- Highland HER MHG4902
- National record
- record NG 31 NE 1; monument 11021
- Wikidata
- Q31099087
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 185)
- MacKie, E W (2007) The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC-AD 500: architecture and material culture, the Northern and Southern Mainland and the Western Islands. BAR British series 444(II), 444(1), 2 V Oxford
- Martin and Martin, C and P (2010a) 'Rubh' an Dunain, Highland (Bracadale parish), field survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 11 (2010), 88
- 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