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Skye, Dun Vallerain
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2715
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2715 (2715)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmuir
- National Grid reference
- NG 4645 6945
- Latitude
- 57.64355
- Longitude
- -6.25058
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Footprint
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- 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 (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG5754
- National record
- record NG 46 NE 1; monument 11339
- Wikidata
- Q31098251
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