Home / Scotland / Highland / Skye, Dun Eyre
Skye, Dun Eyre
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2714
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2714 (2714)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Snizort
- National Grid reference
- NG 4202 5350
- Latitude
- 57.49816
- Longitude
- -6.30767
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Oblique (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Earthwork Survey (1921); Other (1961); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG6490
- National record
- record NG 45 SW 5; monument 11334
- Wikidata
- Q31098226
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