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Skye, Dun Boreraig
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2741
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2741 (2741)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Strath
- National Grid reference
- NG 6151 1612
- Latitude
- 57.17379
- Longitude
- -5.94717
- Altitude
- 10 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 and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876); Other (1914); Other (1961); Other (1963); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2351
- HER
- Highland HER MHG5239
- National record
- record NG 61 NW 2; monument 11558
- Wikidata
- Q31099888
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