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Dun Lagaidh
Highland, Scotland · Atlas SC2864
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2864 (2864)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lochbroom
- National Grid reference
- NH 1423 9135
- Latitude
- 57.87295
- Longitude
- -5.13404
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, timber-laced wall, and vitrification
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, AD 50–400, and after AD 800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Earthwork Survey (1947); Other (1964); Other (1965); Excavation (1967); Excavation (1968); Earthwork Survey (1968); Other (1970)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2523
- HER
- Highland HER MHG45426
- National record
- record NH 19 SW 3; monument 12142
- Wikidata
- Q31101614
Sources
References
- Calder and Steer, C S T and K A (1949) 'Dun Lagaidh and four other prehistoric monuments near Ullapool, Ross and Cromarty'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 83 (1948-9), 68-76
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 149)
- MacKie, E W (1967) 'Lochbroom, Dun Lagaidh vitrified fort and broch', Disc Exc Scot (1967), 47
- MacKie, E W (1968) 'Lochbroom, Dun Lagaidh', Disc Exc Scot (1968), 41-2
- MacKie, E W (1976) 'The vitrified forts of Scotland', in Harding, D W (ed) Hillforts: later prehistoric earthworks in Britain and Ireland. Academic Press: London, New York & San Francisco, 205-35
- MacKie, E W (2007) The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC-AD 500: architecture and material culture, the Northern and Southern Mainland and the Western Islands. BAR British series (2 V). British Archaeological Reports: Oxford