Location
- Atlas number
- SC2754 (2754)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Snizort
- National Grid reference
- NG 3745 5257
- Latitude
- 57.48721
- Longitude
- -6.38275
- Altitude
- 115 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
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- 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
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Earthwork Survey (1921); Other (1934); Other (1961); Other (1963); Other (1984); Other (1985); Other (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 921
- HER
- Highland HER MHG5824
- National record
- record NG 35 SE 2; monument 11143
- Wikidata
- Q31100253
Sources
References
- Clarke, D V (1971) 'Small finds in the Atlantic Province: Problems of approach'. Scot Archaeol Forum 3 (1971)
- 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
- 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- Swanson, C B (1988) A contribution to the understanding of brochs, Unpublished Ph D thesis.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