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Lewis, Rubha Geodh' An T-Slaucain
Western Isles, Scotland · Atlas SC2758
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2758 (2758)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Uig
- National Grid reference
- NB 0055 3109
- Latitude
- 58.16690
- Longitude
- -7.09426
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1996); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE140185
- National record
- record NB 03 SW 61; monument 311155
- Wikidata
- Q31120014
Sources
References
- Burgess, C G P 1999 «Promontory Enclosures on the Isle of Lewis, The Western Isles, Scotland in Frodsham, P, Topping, P & Cowley, D (eds) «We were always chasing time, papers presented to Keith Blood. Northern Archaeol Group 17/18 (1999)
- Burgess, C G P & Church, M 1997 Coastal Erosion Assessment, Lewis (CEAL) Dept of Archaeology, University
- of Edinburgh, unpublished Technical Report submitted to Historic Scotland