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Barra, Dun Ban
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2757
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2757 (2757)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Barra
- National Grid reference
- NF 6311 0037
- Latitude
- 56.97138
- Longitude
- -7.54654
- Altitude
- 15 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1915); Other (1956); Other (1965); Other (1991); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5098
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE9742
- National record
- record NF 60 SW 4; monument 9742
- Wikidata
- Q31120078
Sources
References
- Branigan and Foster, K and P (eds.) (1995) Barra: archaeological research on Ben Tangaval from the end of the Ice Age to the Crofting Commission, Barra: archaeological research on Ben Tangaval. Sheffield
- 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
- 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
- Young, A (1956) 'Excavations at Dun Cuier, Isle of Barra'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 89 (1955-6), 290-328
- Young, A (1962) 'Brochs and duns'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 95 (1961-2), 171-98