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Lewis, Gob Eirer
Western Isles, Scotland · Atlas SC2760
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2760 (2760)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Uig
- National Grid reference
- NB 0315 3398
- Latitude
- 58.19445
- Longitude
- -7.05400
- Altitude
- 5 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 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Interior excavation
- pits and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1995); Excavation (1996); Excavation (1998); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE109407
- National record
- record NB 03 SW 21; monument 109407
- Wikidata
- Q31120023
Sources
References
- Burgess and Church, C and M (1995) 'Uig Sands to Aird Uig, Isle of Lewis (Uig parish), survey'. Disc Exc Scot (1995), 112
- Burgess, C, Dempsey, J, Gilmour, S and Jackson, A (1996) 'Gob Eirer (Uig parish), promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1996), 111
- Church, Gilmour and Flitcroft, M, S and C (1998) 'Gob Eirer (UIg parish), promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1998), 106
- Nesbitt, C, Church, M J, and Gilmour, S M D (2011) 'Domestic, industrial, (en)closed? Survey and excavation of a Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age promontory enclosure at Gob Eirer, Lewis, Western Isles'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 141 (2011), 31-74