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Muck, Caisteal An Duin Bhain
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2522
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2522 (2522)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Small Isles
- National Grid reference
- NM 4218 7864
- Latitude
- 56.82764
- Longitude
- -6.22759
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1809); Other (1877); Earthwork Survey (1925); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (2002); Other (2004)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11010
- HER
- Highland HER MHG5696
- National record
- record NM 47 NW 2; monument 22137
- Wikidata
- Q31097888
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 140)
- RCAHMS (1928) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Ninth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles. HMSO: Edinburgh