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Skye, Dun Mor, Torrin
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2718
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2718 (2718)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Strath
- National Grid reference
- NG 5740 2015
- Latitude
- 57.20775
- Longitude
- -6.01891
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876); Other (1914); Other (1961); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG5161
- National record
- record NG 52 SE 4; monument 11451
- Wikidata
- Q31098331
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