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Skye, Rigg
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2721
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2721 (2721)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Snizort
- National Grid reference
- NG 5237 5790
- Latitude
- 57.54329
- Longitude
- -6.13995
- Altitude
- 15 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 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
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 (1990)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG6674
- National record
- record NG 55 NW 6; monument 74714
- Wikidata
- Q31098556
Sources
References
- Miket, R et al (1990) 'Survey'. Disc Exc Scot (1990), 25