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Mas na Buaile
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2784
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2784 (2784)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tongue
- National Grid reference
- NC 6730 6353
- Latitude
- 58.53968
- Longitude
- -4.28119
- Altitude
- 53 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 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and 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 (1987)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG12435
- National record
- record NC 66 SE 21; monument 5788
- Wikidata
- Q31099819
Sources
References
- Ross, D W (1987) 'Skerray-Mas Na Buaile (Tongue parish) fort, promontory'. Disc Exc Scot (1987), 29