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Skye, Dun Liath
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2708
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2708 (2708)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmuir
- National Grid reference
- NG 3598 7002
- Latitude
- 57.64257
- Longitude
- -6.42614
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Earthwork Survey (1921); Other (1963); Excavation (1964); Other (1969); Other (1971); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2850
- HER
- Highland HER MHG44721
- National record
- record NG 37 SE 2; monument 11206
- Wikidata
- Q31099261
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- MacKie, E W (1965) Excavations on two galleried duns on Skye in 1964-5 (Interim report)
- 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
- 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