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Creagan Fhamhair
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2728
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2728 (2728)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gairloch
- National Grid reference
- NG 8216 7291
- Latitude
- 57.69317
- Longitude
- -5.65685
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1924); Other (1984); Other (1995); Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6235
- HER
- Highland HER MHG7738
- National record
- record NG 87 SW 1; monument 11967
- Wikidata
- Q31099588
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford, London (p 149)
- Thomson, W (1924) 'An Account of several Antiquities in Gairloch Parish, Ross-shire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 58 (1923-4), 131-9