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Skye, Knock
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2738
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2738 (2738)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sleat
- National Grid reference
- NG 6795 0983
- Latitude
- 57.12072
- Longitude
- -5.83506
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1914); Other (1934); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1961); Other (1984); Other (1996); Other (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 922
- HER
- Highland HER MHG4070
- National record
- record NG 60 NE 5; monument 11545
- Wikidata
- Q31099845
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