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Skye, Dun Geilbt
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2751
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2751 (2751)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sleat
- National Grid reference
- NG 5675 0480
- Latitude
- 57.06985
- Longitude
- -6.01470
- 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 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876); Other (1915); Other (1961); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG5194
- National record
- record NG 50 SE 1; monument 11417
- Wikidata
- Q31099451
Sources
References
- Dualchas (1994d) 'Glen Meadhonach (Sleat parish): landscape survey'. Disc Exc Scot (1994), 42
- 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