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Dun-Da-Lamh, Laggan
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2611
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2611 (2611)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Laggan
- National Grid reference
- NN 5823 9295
- Latitude
- 57.00593
- Longitude
- -4.33597
- Altitude
- 454 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
- Water source
- spring and well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1792); Earthwork Survey (1832); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1869); Earthwork Survey (1921); Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1965); Other (1979); Other (1984); Other (1986); Other (2001); Other (2002); Eart
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4361
- HER
- Highland HER MHG4666
- National record
- record NN 59 SE 3; monument 24310
- Wikidata
- Q31098135
Sources
References
- Close-Brooks, J (1986) Exploring Scotland's heritage: the Highlands, Exploring Scotland's heritage series. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Dalland, M (2002) 'Dun da Lamh, Laggan, Highland (Laggan parish), hillfort'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser 3 (2002), 74
- 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
- Mackay, M (1857) 'Description of the hill-fort of Dun-da-Laimh, in the Parish of Laggan, District of Badenoch, Inverness-shire'. Archaeol Scotica 4 (1857), 305-12
- Wallace, T (1921) 'Archaeological notes'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 8 (1921), 125-31
- Wilson, D (1863) Prehistoric annals of Scotland, 2v London (i, 91-2)