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Skye, Leitir Fura, Kinloch
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4210
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4210 (4210)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sleat
- National Grid reference
- NG 7321 1543
- Latitude
- 57.17362
- Longitude
- -5.75338
- Altitude
- 5 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1996); Earthwork Survey (2009)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG53611
- National record
- record NG 71 NW
- Wikidata
- Q31102473
Sources
References
- Wildgoose, M (2010) Leitir Fura, Kinloch, Isle of Skye: A Clearance Settlement Managed for Public Display. A Re-evaluation after 10 years of Public Access. Part 1, The Report and Recommendations. Unpublished report commissioned by the Forestry Commission.
- Wildgoose, M & Kozikowski, G (1996) Leitir Fura: A Depopulated Township. A Survey of the visible remains and the related relict landscape. Unpublished report