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Skye, Dun Vlargveg
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2719
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2719 (2719)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Portree
- National Grid reference
- NG 5179 3690
- Latitude
- 57.35482
- Longitude
- -6.12833
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1928); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1961); Other (1971); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG4106
- National record
- record NG 53 NW 9; monument 11481
- Wikidata
- Q31098416
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