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Skye, Dun Garsin

Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2753

Location

Atlas number
SC2753 (2753)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Highland
Historic county
Inverness-shire
Parish, community, or townland
Bracadale
National Grid reference
NG 3609 3878
Latitude
57.36285
Longitude
-6.39052
Altitude
30 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial univallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
1
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
Possible original entrances
0
Breaks through the ramparts
0
Enclosed area
0.13 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
rubble

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 (1877); Other (1915); Other (1961); Other (1963); Other (1984); Other (1985)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
912
HER
Highland HER MHG4876
National record
record NG 33 NE 1; monument 11047
Wikidata
Q31100229

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 Swanson, C B (1988) A contribution to the understanding of brochs, Unpublished Ph D thesis.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