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Skye, Dun Colbost
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2749
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2749 (2749)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Duirinish
- National Grid reference
- NG 2055 4947
- Latitude
- 57.44929
- Longitude
- -6.66017
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Earthwork Survey (1921); Other (1984); Other (1985); Excavation (1989); Excavation (1990); Excavation (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG4840
- National record
- record NG 24 NW 5; monument 10833
- Wikidata
- Q31099392
Sources
References
- 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
- MacSween and Reed, A and D (1989) 'Dun Colbost (Duirinish parish), broch'. Disc Exc Scot (1989), 35
- MacSween and Reed, A and D (1990) 'Dun Colbost (Duirinish parish), broch'. Disc Exc Scot (1990), 28
- MacSween and Reed, A and D (1994) 'Dun Colbost (Duirinish parish): broch'. Disc Exc Scot (1994), 40
- 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
- Swanson, C B (1988) A contribution to the understanding of brochs, Unpublished Ph D thesis. University of Edinburgh