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Lewis, Stac a' Chaisteil
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2763
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2763 (2763)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Uig
- National Grid reference
- NB 2024 4540
- Latitude
- 58.30783
- Longitude
- -6.77808
- Altitude
- 50 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
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1850); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1852); Other (1969); Earthwork Survey (2004)
Identifiers
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE4207
- National record
- record NB 24 NW 5; monument 4207
- Wikidata
- Q31120042
Sources
References
- Barrowman, C (2004) 'Sea Stack Survey, Lewis (Barvas; Uig parishes), survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 5 (2004), 133-4
- Burgess, C (1999) 'Promontory enclosures on the Isle of Lewis, the Western Isles, Scotland'. In Frodsham, P, Topping, P and Cowley, D 'We were always chasing time.' Papers presented to Keith Blood, Northern Archaeol (Spec Edition), vol.17/18 (1999), 100
- Burgess, C (2008) Ancient Lewis and Harris: exploring the archaeology of the Outer Hebrides,
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/