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Skye, Portee, Dun Gerashader
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2709
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2709 (2709)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Portree
- National Grid reference
- NG 4892 4527
- Latitude
- 57.42824
- Longitude
- -6.18445
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Footprint
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- chevaux de frise
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- 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); Earthwork Survey (1921); Other (1961); Other (1963); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2350
- HER
- Highland HER MHG5146
- National record
- record NG 44 NE 3; monument 11271
- Wikidata
- Q31099357
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- MacSween, A (1985) The Broch, Duns and Enclosures of Skye. Northern Archaeology 5-6 (1984-85), 1-57
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/. Inverness-shire, Skye, No. 9, p 42
- 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