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Rubh' Aird Ghamhsgail, Arisaig
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2539
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2539 (2539)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Arisaig And Moidart
- National Grid reference
- NM 6929 8400
- Latitude
- 56.88986
- Longitude
- -5.78933
- 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 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1880); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1899); Other (1968); Other (1970)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG44717
- National record
- record NM 68 SE 2; monument 22529
- Wikidata
- Q31097879
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Hamilton, E (1880) Archaeol J 37 (1880), 227-43
- Nisbet, H C (1974) 'A geological approach to vitrified forts, part I: the archaeological and scientific background'. Sci & Archaeol 12 (1974), 3-12
- Nisbet, H C (1975) 'A geological approach to vitrified forts, part II: bedrock and building stone'. Sci & Archaeol 15 (1975), 3-16