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Lewis, Mangursta, Stac Dhomnuill Chaim
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2759
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2759 (2759)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Uig
- National Grid reference
- NB 0022 3152
- Latitude
- 58.17047
- Longitude
- -7.10048
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Other
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1865); Other (1969); Other (1992)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5327
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE4047
- National record
- record NB 03 SW 1; monument 4047
- Wikidata
- Q31120080
Sources
References
- Thomas, F W L (1890) 'On the duns of the Outer Hebrides'. Archaeol Scot 5.3 (1890), 365-415