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Lewis, Dun Eorradail
Western Isles, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2773
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2773 (2773)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Western Isles
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Barvas
- National Grid reference
- NB 5426 6297
- Latitude
- 58.48551
- Longitude
- -6.21797
- Altitude
- 28 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.78 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800 and undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- Other (1865); Other (1969)
Identifiers
- HER
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - Western Isles Sites and Monuments Record MWE4429
- National record
- record NB 56 SW 13; monument 4429
- Wikidata
- Q31120072
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)
- Thomas, F W L (1890) 'On the duns of the Outer Hebrides'. Archaeol Scot 5 (1890), 365-415