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Dun Deardail
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2607
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2607 (2607)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmallie
- National Grid reference
- NN 1270 7012
- Latitude
- 56.78491
- Longitude
- -5.06773
- Altitude
- 345 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.1 ha, 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, timber-laced wall, and vitrification
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1777); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1870); Earthwork Survey (1888); Other (1943); Other (1956); Other (1968); Other (1970); Other (1994); Other (1995); Other (2008); Earthwork Survey (2010); Excavation (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2893
- HER
- Highland HER MHG4348
- National record
- record NN 17 SW 6; monument 23727
- Wikidata
- Q31098124
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1889) The duns and forts of Lorne, Nether Lochaber, and the neighbourhood'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 23 (1888-9), 368-432
- Christison, D (1898) Early fortifications in Scotland: motes, camps and forts: the Rhind lectures in archaeology for 1894. Blackwood & Sons: Edinburgh
- Cotton, M A (1954) 'British camps with timber-laced ramparts'. Archaeol J 111 (1954), 26-105
- Feachem, R W (1977) Guide to prehistoric Scotland, London
- Headland Archaeology Ltd 2011 A Topographic Survey of Five Pictish Forts in the Highlands. Report to the Forestry Commission
- 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), 11
- Ritchie, M (2009) 'Dun Deardail Fort, Glen Nevis, Highland (Kilmallie parish), conservation management'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser 10 (2009), 101-102
- Williams, J (1777) An account of some remarkable ancient ruins, lately discovered in the highlands and northern parts of Scotland: in a series of letters to G.C.M. Esq. Edinburgh