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Gaskbeg
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2624
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2624 (2624)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Laggan
- National Grid reference
- NN 6122 9512
- Latitude
- 57.02632
- Longitude
- -4.28798
- Altitude
- 350 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1997); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG28209
- National record
- record NN 69 NW 4; monument 123551
- Wikidata
- Q31097899
Sources
References
- Wordsworth, J (1997) 'Gaskbeg Farm (Laggan parish), ESA management survey'. Disc Exc Scot (1997), 49