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Skye, Dun Hallin

Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2752

Location

Atlas number
SC2752 (2752)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Highland
Historic county
Inverness-shire
Parish, community, or townland
Duirinish
National Grid reference
NG 2565 5928
Latitude
57.54031
Longitude
-6.58650
Altitude
140 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
0.15 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 Map Depiction (1875); Earthwork Survey (1921); Other (1936); Other (1961); Other (1963); Other (1984); Other (1985); Other (1990)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
916
HER
Highland HER MHG4754
National record
record NG 25 NE 1.01; monument 10905
Wikidata
Q31100202

Sources

References

  1. 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
  2. MacSween, A (1985) The Broch, Duns and Enclosures of Skye. Northern Archaeology 5-6 (1984-85), 1-57
  3. 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
  4. Swanson, C B (1988) A contribution to the understanding of brochs, Unpublished Ph D thesis. University of Edinburgh