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An Dun, Gairloch
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2727
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2727 (2727)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gairloch
- National Grid reference
- NG 8027 7534
- Latitude
- 57.71403
- Longitude
- -5.69071
- Altitude
- 10 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 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Footprint
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (1886); Other (1924); Other (1947); Other (1949); Other (1965); Other (1995); Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6234
- HER
- Highland HER MHG7730
- National record
- record NG 87 NW 6; monument 11959
- Wikidata
- Q31099549
Sources
References
- Dixon, J H (1886) Gairloch in north west Ross-shire: its records, traditions inhabitants and natural history with a guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree. Edinburgh
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford, London (p 149)
- Graham, A (1947) 'New vitrified forts'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot.81 (1946-7), 182
- Graham, A (1951) 'Notes on some brochs and forts visited in 1949'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 83 (1948-9), 12-24
- Thomson, W (1924) 'An Account of several Antiquities in Gairloch Parish, Ross-shire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 58 (1923-4), 131-9