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Lewis, Dun Bhilascleiter
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2769
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2769 (2769)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Barvas
- National Grid reference
- NB 5602 5762
- Latitude
- 58.43863
- Longitude
- -6.18215
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South 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 (1865); Other (1914); Other (1969); Other (1992); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5328
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE4414
- National record
- record NB 55 NE 1; monument 4414
- Wikidata
- Q31120099
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