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Lewis, Gob a' Chuthail
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2761
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2761 (2761)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Uig
- National Grid reference
- NB 1869 4500
- Latitude
- 58.30326
- Longitude
- -6.80395
- Altitude
- 64 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
- 2 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 reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- pits and roundhouses
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1995); Other (2005); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE149354
- National record
- record NB 14 NE 3; monument 223931
- Wikidata
- Q31120033
Sources
References
- Burgess and Gilmour, C and S (1995) 'Garenin, Carloway, Isle of Lewis (Uig parish), stills; promontory fort; corn-drying kiln; cairn'. Disc Exc Scot (1995), 112
- Burgess, C (1999) 'Promontory enclosures on the Isle of Lewis, the Western Isles, Scotland'. In Frodsham, P, Topping, P and Cowley, D 1999 'We were always chasing time.' Papers presented to Keith Blood. Northern Archaeol (Spec Edition) 17/18 (1999)