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Lewis, Creag Dubh
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2770
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2770 (2770)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Barvas
- National Grid reference
- NB 5569 6145
- Latitude
- 58.47275
- Longitude
- -6.19188
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.01 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (2005); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE144519
- National record
- record NB 56 SE 3; monument 270558
- Wikidata
- Q31120056
Sources