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Ardnamurchan, Shielfoot, The Torr
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2537
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2537 (2537)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ardnamurchan
- National Grid reference
- NM 6622 7018
- Latitude
- 56.76445
- Longitude
- -5.82694
- Altitude
- 75 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 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Footprint
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Also recorded
- annex and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1866); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872); Other (1970); Earthwork Survey (1973); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7800
- HER
- Highland HER MHG150
- National record
- record NM 67 SE 4; monument 22514
- Wikidata
- Q31098016
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1980) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 3: Mull, Tiree, Coll and Northern Argyll (excluding the early medieval and later monuments of Iona). HMSO: Edinburgh