Location
- Atlas number
- SC2704 (2704)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Duirinish
- National Grid reference
- NG 3507 5577
- Latitude
- 57.51442
- Longitude
- -6.42579
- 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 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Other (1915); Earthwork Survey (1921); Other (1971); Other (1984); Other (1990)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG5074
- National record
- record NG 35 NE 3; monument 11131
- Wikidata
- Q31098080
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