Location
- Atlas number
- SC2731 (2731)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Snizort
- National Grid reference
- NG 4108 5185
- Latitude
- 57.48278
- Longitude
- -6.32160
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Footprint
- 0.77 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1921); Excavation (1922); Other (1936); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1968); Other (1971); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 910
- HER
- Highland HER MHG6488
- National record
- record NG 45 SW 3; monument 11332
- Wikidata
- Q31099723
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 156)
- 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