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Skye, Dun Santavaig
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2702
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2702 (2702)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Snizort
- National Grid reference
- NG 3822 5720
- Latitude
- 57.52906
- Longitude
- -6.37490
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, 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 (South 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 (1926); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1961); Other (1971); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG3159
- National record
- record NG 35 NE 11; monument 11123
- Wikidata
- Q31098062
Sources
References
- MacSween, A (1985) The Broch, Duns and Enclosures of Skye. Northern Archaeology 5-6 (1984-85), 1-57
- 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