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Skye, Sgoir Beag
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2733
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2733 (2733)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Duirinish
- National Grid reference
- NG 2249 6151
- Latitude
- 57.55828
- Longitude
- -6.64165
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.01 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1990); Other (1991)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG6226
- National record
- record NG 26 SW 10; monument 71564
- Wikidata
- Q31098975
Sources
References
- Miket, R (1991) 'Survey'. Disc Exc Scot (1991), 43