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Skye, Ullinish

Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2701

Location

Atlas number
SC2701 (2701)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Highland
Historic county
Inverness-shire
Parish, community, or townland
Bracadale
National Grid reference
NG 3173 3740
Latitude
57.34794
Longitude
-6.46128
Altitude
15 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 0
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
0.7 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
stone wall
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (East)

Landscape

Topographic position
coastal promontory
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and heather moorland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
1st Identified Written Reference (1915); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1961); Other (1963); Other (1971)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
930
HER
Highland HER MHG5020
National record
record NG 33 NW 6; monument 11065
Wikidata
Q31099213

Sources

References

  1. 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