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Skye, Dun Adhamh
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2713
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2713 (2713)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Snizort
- National Grid reference
- NG 4103 5464
- Latitude
- 57.50774
- Longitude
- -6.32539
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Footprint
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
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
- Earthwork Survey (1921); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1971); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG5764
- National record
- record NG 45 SW 15; monument 11326
- Wikidata
- Q31098201
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