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Ardintoul
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2725
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2725 (2725)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glenshiel
- National Grid reference
- NG 8431 2374
- Latitude
- 57.25344
- Longitude
- -5.57738
- Altitude
- 105 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 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (2009)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG54503
- National record
- record NG 82 SW 26; monument 305342
- Wikidata
- Q31098753
Sources
References
- Ritchie and Taylor, M and B (2009) 'Ardintoul Fort, Highland (Glenshiel parish), fort or dun enclosure'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 10 (2009), 99