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Lewis, Dun Mor
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2768
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2768 (2768)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stornoway
- National Grid reference
- NB 5143 3392
- Latitude
- 58.22376
- Longitude
- -6.23504
- Altitude
- 20 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1849); 1st Identified Written Reference (1865); Other (1914); Other (1964); Other (1992); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5366
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE4394
- National record
- record NB 53 SW 3; monument 4394
- Wikidata
- Q31120084
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1928) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Ninth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Thomas, F W L (1890) 'On the duns of the Outer Hebrides'. Archaeol Scot 5 (1890), 365-415