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Skye, Dun Ardtreck
Highland, Scotland · Atlas SC2734
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2734 (2734)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bracadale
- National Grid reference
- NG 3350 3581
- Latitude
- 57.33474
- Longitude
- -6.43023
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50, AD 50–400, and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Other (1915); Earthwork Survey (1963); Excavation (1964); Excavation (1965); Other (1984); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7120
- HER
- Highland HER MHG5019
- National record
- record NG 33 NW 5; monument 11064
- Wikidata
- Q31099758
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 156)
- MacKie, E W (1965) Excavations on two galleried duns on Skye in 1964-5, (Interim report)
- Mackie, E W (2000) 'Excavations on Dun Ardtreck, Skye, in 1964 and 1965', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 130 (2000), 301-411
- MacKie, E W (2007) The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC-AD 500: architecture and material culture, the Northern and Southern Mainland and the Western Islands. BAR British series (2 V): Oxford
- 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