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Lewis, Sheshader, Dun Dubh
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2766
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2766 (2766)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stornoway
- National Grid reference
- NB 5570 3267
- Latitude
- 58.21495
- Longitude
- -6.16123
- Altitude
- 60 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 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
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 (1964); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1964); Other (1999); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE4389
- National record
- record NB 53 SE 1; monument 4389
- Wikidata
- Q31120046
Sources
References
- 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), 17/18 (1999)