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Skye, Dun Taimh
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2698
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2698 (2698)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bracadale
- National Grid reference
- NG 3633 3668
- Latitude
- 57.34419
- Longitude
- -6.38426
- Altitude
- 155 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop 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); 1st Identified Written Reference (1915); Other (1961); Other (1971); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG4874
- National record
- record NG 33 NE 3; monument 11049
- Wikidata
- Q31098027
Sources
References
- Liestol, A (1984) 'Runes', in Fenton, A and Palsson, H The Northern and Western Isles in the Viking world: survival, continuity and change. John Donald: Edinburgh
- 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